From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 15:37:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.globalserve.net (mail6.globalserve.net [209.90.128.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1844714CAB for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lalala@globalserve.net) Received: from myname.my.domain (dialin163.montreal.globalserve.net [209.167.12.164]) by mail6.globalserve.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA19822; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:39:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <377A62FC.41C67EA6@globalserve.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:33:32 +0000 From: Marty C X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is cool References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yup! That appears to have done the deed with no [immeditely apparent] unwanted side effects. 'ulimit -c 0' in my .profile file didn't seem to work, but maybe I did it wrong... Thanks all! Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > 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! -- ======================================= | from Martin, lalala@globalserve.net | | -Destroyer of Hard Drives | | -Mangler of partition tables | | -Data's worst nightmare | ======================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message