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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:33:52 +0100
From: "Christoph Nodes" <cnodes@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps
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On 2/27/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007, Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx> wrote about 'Re:
> [gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps':
> > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:39:27 -0500
> > David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:12:49 +0100
> > > Christoph Nodes wrote:
> > > > I am using sys-libs/pam-0.78-r5.
> > >
> > > As best I know, it's the ulimit setting that's relevant and pam is not
> > > involved.
> >
> > AFAIK, pam is only for Authentication.
>
> There are a lot of tangential issues (like limits) that were traditionally
> controlled by the authentication "stack" on unix. PAM allows you to
> replace all of this, so there are indeed PAM modules that control limits.
Thank you all for your answers.
I added 'ulimit -c 0' to /etc/profile but I am not completely happy
with this. Why do I have to change anything? I always thought not
alowing core dumps would be the default behaviour.
I guess KDE's crash handler could also responsible for changing the
core dump limit. I'll have a look.
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