cron goes mad?

[Stephen Walton]

Dave Alden wrote:

>Oops, no.  I've now modified my /etc/init.d/crond to add:
>
>ulimit -S -c unlimited
>
>after source /etc/init.d/functions -- we'll see what that does...
>
You may want to change the ulimit line in /etc/profile similarly.  If it 
is a cron job which is dumping and not crond itself, then the core dump 
won't happen if the cron job is a shell script which sources 
/etc/profile.  I'm going to try this myself.

On another subject, if you want to find all core files I think you'd 
have to search on the regexp 'core\.[0-9]+$'.  I used this pattern with 
'sudo locate -r' and found only a couple.  Of course if they were in 
/tmp they got flushed by recent reboots.