Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:30:55 -0500 From: "Craig Reyenga" <craig@craig.afraid.org> To: "Tobias Eichert" <te@macnews.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Disable core dumps Message-ID: <000701c4047a$b6e8d550$0200000a@redline> References: <200403071939.25587.te@macnews.de>
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I think you are looking for the 'kern.coredump' sysctl. Put a line like this in /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.coredump=0 Hope this helps. -Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias Eichert" <te@macnews.de> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:39 PM Subject: Disable core dumps > Hello, > I'd like to know whether there's a possibility to disable core dumps in a > 'global' manner. > I've already modified my bash config by adding a "ulimit -c 0" in order to > prevent core dumps from being written to the disk. > The problem still persists when starting an application via the KDE menu, in > my case the qt assistant. The core file will be in my home directory. > > There's a way to disable crash dumps by adding the line "dumpdev=NO" > to /etc/rc.conf. Is there something analogue for nomal core dumps? > > Thanks and best regards, > Tobias > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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