i use ulimit to do the job. i believe the command is ulimit -c ..it would apply to all shells .. (man ulimit or man builtins or man bash it may be in any/all of those man pages)
my defaults for ulimit: core file size (blocks) 0 data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited max memory size (kbytes) 24000 open files 256 pipe size (512 bytes) 8 stack size (kbytes) 8192 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 12 virtual memory (kbytes) 24000 nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:39pm up 76 days, 10:06, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.38, 0.36 On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, jack wrote: > hi, > > limit coredumpsize in csh or tcsh is easy as limit coredumpsize 0. How > can I do the same thing with bash? > > tia, > > jack > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >