Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 1996 23:30:04 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: magic file entry to understand core dumps |
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On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Johnie Stafford wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:02:50 +0200 (MET DST), Swen Thuemmler <swen@uni-paderborn.de> said: > > st> swen@hobbiton </tmp>: file core > st> core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'coretest' (signal 8), Intel 80386, version 1, stripped > st> swen@hobbiton </tmp>: file -v > st> file-3.19 > > Great, now if I could just figure out how to enable core dumps on my > machine, I'll be set. > > Johnie >
Look at ulimit, it's a bash builtin, so man bash, search for ulimit (I'm assuming loads of stuff, like bash is your shell ... ;)
Just to get you going, a 'ulimit -c umlimited' will dump everything that the programs going to (I got a 10Mb core of the quake networking test when it SEGV'd on me with that, so watchout ;).
Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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