Re: where do the core dumps go

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Emiel Metselaar wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all the replies, it actually turned out to be
> a limits problem.
> I checked with "limit- h", which echoes:
> cputime         unlimited
> coredumpsize    unlimited
> 
> But only "limit" the soft limits gave:
> cputime         unlimited
> coredumpsize    0 kbytes
> 
> I always thought that the hard limits had preference above the
> soft ones. In the previous versions of RH, the system wide tcsh

The smaller is used. So you can have a system wide limit of
10MB, but a user may only want 1MB, so apps they
run will only generate 1MB dumps.

But if the user want's 20MB, they only get the 10MB set
as a hard limit.

	-Thomas