On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:28:15AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:21:19AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I have been asked by an application developer, who is trying to find out > > problems with one of their products running on our server, to set up the > > server so that "core files can be written". What are these, and how would I > > do this? > > When a program crashes the last thing that happens is that its memory > image is written to a file called core. Some shells allow to specify > how big such core files may be; bash uses "ulimit -f <#kilobytes>". > Default the max size is 0, so practically prohibiting core dumps.
I believe it's 'ulimit -c'. You can use 'ulimit -c unlimited' to set no limit on the size of core dumps. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
