On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM, SADA SIVA REDDY S <sadasiva.reddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > I have a situation like below. I am using RHEL 5. > > I have multiple user processes running on my machine. > I have set the appropriate sizes for core file size. > But my process maangement demon is designed to restart any process that > terminates. > Hence the process starts up again. > If I have a very bad nasty defect, it will keep on filling my machine with > core files until I run out of space on the partition. > > My Questions: > > Is there a provision in Linux to automatically cleanup the old corefiles > when we reach a certain limit ? > Is there a provision in Linux to set a upper limit for space occupied by all > core files (not individual core files) ? > > Any inputs appreciated. May be "man logrotate" can help. -- Thanks - Manish _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
