Subject: Re: ulimit error on login
From: Stephen Lewis (lewis@napanet.net)
Date: Tue Sep 14 1999 - 22:56:34 MDT
Ooops. I think you are probably right - I spoke to
quickly - this is what I observed and I did
not dig deeper,
Stephen Lewis
Jim Cole wrote:
>
> Stephen Lewis wrote:
>
> > HOWEVER - it only accepts '0' or 'unlimited'
> > as arguments to the '-c' option. i.e. you can
> > have EITHER unlimited core files OR no core
> > files - there is no support for truncating core files,
>
> Hi. This is not true. At least not of any bash or sh I have used recently
> (including what is in the YDL distro). You can set ulimit to arbitrary
> values which just means that you get a core file if its size will be less
> than your limit. Otherwise you don't. Of course you can also use
> unlimited/0 for anything/nothing.
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