There is a setting to allow a corefile to be written when a process crashes.
If not set, no corefile is created. Can anyone tell me what setting this
is?

Bill McIntyre wrote:

> There is a setting to allow a corefile to be written when a process
> crashes.
> If not set, no corefile is created. Can anyone tell me what setting this
> is?

It's the "corefile" setting. What question did you actually mean to post?
Did you actually want to ask "what does this setting do"?

It allows for the creation of a core dump file if a process crashes. If a
process crashes, a special file is created that contains the environment at
the instant of the crash. This file can be analyzed for clues as about the
cause of the crash.

--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

> There is a setting to allow a corefile to be written when a process
> crashes. If not set, no corefile is created. Can anyone tell me what
> setting this is?

I suppose you use bash, if so check ulimit -c

Eric

Yes that's exactly what it is, thank you. /etc/profile had it explicitly
turned off:

# No core files by default
ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1


"Eric Moors" <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote in message
newsan.2003.10.22.08.34.15.86317.13615@oz.land.. .
> > There is a setting to allow a corefile to be written when a process
> > crashes. If not set, no corefile is created. Can anyone tell me what
> > setting this is?
>
> I suppose you use bash, if so check ulimit -c
>
> Eric