LOW: tq, blackouts, coredumps...

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:14:17 -0800 (PST)
From: "Ian S. White" <ud510@victoria.tc.ca>
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, David Priebe wrote:

> If someone does make these changes to the csuite-shell script, please
> forward them to me/the list.  I have had to clean up core files by hand
> in the past and it can be a long process.

How about instead of trying to trap and/or delete core files, put in a
'ulimit -c 0' near the top of the shell to tell bash that the maximum
size of a core dump is 0 blocks, and prevent it from writing these
files. 

Ian

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