From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 8:34:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA69637B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA93147; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:34:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:33:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping a core dump in progress? In-Reply-To: <20001011164106.B3039@linux.rainbow> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Igor Roboul wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:09:43PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > So, short of disabling core dumps or limiting the coredumpsize, is there > > a way to address this on a case by case base, by manually stopping the > > core dump? > man login.conf > Then hit / and type core then press Enter key. > OR > man csh > Hit / and type coredump then Enter key. > OR > man sh > And again '/coredump Enter-key' > > I wonder, wonder, wonder. Why some one asks BEFORE he/she check > manuals? Ok, maybe someone does not know abour 'man' command? Or > does not know where to look? He asked how to stop a core dump IN PROGRESS, and he had obviously already read the manual pages because he knew how to limit coredump size or disable coredumps entirely. None of the above manual pages answer the original question, and you've managed to do nothing but make an ass out of yourself. Did YOU bother to read the manual pages first? -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message