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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:12:49 +0100 |
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Christoph Nodes wrote: |
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> Dear gentoo users, |
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> since a few months I am getting core dumps in / and $HOME/ on my |
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> notebook. I am not aware of having changed anything with my PAM or |
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> similar settings. Has there be any changes to the default policy in |
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> PAM concerning core dumps? |
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> I would like to suppress the generation of core dumps for normal |
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> users. |
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> ulimit -c as normal user gives me 976 block as root I get 0. I know |
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> that setting ulimit -c 0 in .bash_profile or .profile could be a |
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> solution but I'm looking for a more appropriate way to avoid core |
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> dumps for normal users. |
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> I already read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml but the |
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> information there seems to be somehow outdated since I don't have a |
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> /etc/limits.conf only a /etc/limits. But AFAIK this ought to be |
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> irrelevant for me as I am using PAM? |
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> Anyhow, I did not change anything to /etc/security/limits.conf or |
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> /etc/limits, i.e. everything in these files is commented out. I also |
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> checked /etc/conf.d/rc and it seems to be ok. |
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> So how can I get rid of these core dumps? |
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> I am using sys-libs/pam-0.78-r5. |
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> Some more general information about my system: |
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> # emerge --version |
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> Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, |
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> 2.6.19-ck2-r1 i686) |
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> What else? |
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> Thanks in advance. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Christoph |
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As best I know, it's the ulimit setting that's relevant and pam is not |
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involved. |
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