Heh, ok, serves me right for complaining. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com> To: <redhat-devel-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:57 AM Subject: Re: How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:55:17AM -0600, Dan Winslow wrote: > > I just would like to say, that this is an extremely ill-thought out change. > > It's a change to basic behavior thats been in place for years and years, and > > makes core files even MORE problematic for disk space as they don't > > overwrite each other. Is this a ReddHat change, or a linux kernel change? If > > RedHat came up with this, I think they are being extremely foolish. > > Look in /etc/sysctl.conf: > > # Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename. > # Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications. > kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 > > There is a patch to use a printf-like format string to specify the path and > name of the core file, so that you can place the core files anywhere you > like, and name them as you please. See > > http://www.sinz.org/Michael.Sinz/Linux/ > > Regards, > > Bill Rugolsky > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
