Re: No core files being created
On Monday 21 October 2002 16:03, Peter Nyhan wrote:
> I just recently switched from FreeBSD to Debian 3.0 and transported my
> current C project
> over to this platform. My project crashed today and did not generate a
> core file.
> Ulimit -a reports that cores are set to 0. When I type ulimit -c
> unlimited and forced a core dump
> it created the core file just fine. So I edited /etc/security
> limits.conf for my user account to set
> the hard and soft values of core files to 9000 (seeing as I could not
> set it to unlimited). I then sourced
> limits.conf, logged out and ulimit -a showed the change just fine. I
> forced a core dump again and
> did not get a core file this time. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? If
> I set ulimit -c to unlimited
> and force a core dump I get one just fine, but once I log out and force
> a core dump again I do not
> get a core file. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
> -PNyhan
I have never tried to set it via limits.conf, I just have it set in my
~/.bashrc.
The default to no cores is more polite to users because it does not litter the
drive. It also ends up being more polite to developers as well. If it is
always on you run the risk of overwriting a useful core.
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