From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 15: 1:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8745E14DB1 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA13024; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:05:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:05:12 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Marty C , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD is cool In-Reply-To: <19990630184029.A4888@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> 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, 30 Jun 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > *** warning untested idea *** > > > > sysctl -w kern.corefile=/dev/null > > > > ***************************** > > > > please let me know how it works, btw I take no responcibility if > > this hoses your machine, you do so at your own risk. > > I don't think that would work, since the core dump routine (elf_coredump > in imgact_elf.c) checks that the file to dump to is a regular file. > aout_coredump makes the same check. Isn't this what he desires? Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:18:18 +0000 From: Marty C To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: FreeBSD is cool Is it possible to somehow turn off the core dumping behaviour of crashed applications? Thanx! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message