Re: I want coredumps!

[Matej Cepl <cepl@surfbest.net>]

On 2003-06-19, 09:17 GMT, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
>> Debian/woody in its default configuration has ulimit -c set to 0.
>> However, I want my programs to produce coredump when they fall down. Is
>> there any canonical place where I put the configuration command to such
>> effect (ulimit -c unlimited, I suppose)?
> 
> Edit /etc/security/limits.conf

Hmmm. I tried both of these:

1) I uncommented the line in /etc/security/limits.conf

   *               hard    core            10000

   restarted computer, but nothing happened (ulimit -a in konsole still 
   shows 0 for core files).

   Is there any documentation for the limits.conf file? I was not able 
   to find anything (have not tried dejanews.com though).

2) I put this into my /etc/X11/Xsession (just after set -e line):

   ulimit -c unlimited || true

   and again nothing happened except, that I got this in 
   /var/log/kdm.log:

   /etc/X11/Xsession: ulimit: cannot modify core file size limit: \
      Operace není povolena
   (``Operace není povolena'' is ``Action is not permitted'' in Czech).

Any thoughts anybody?

   Thanks,

      Matej

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