[gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps

[Christoph Nodes]

Dear gentoo users,

since a few months I am getting core dumps in / and $HOME/ on my
notebook. I am not aware of having changed anything with my PAM or
similar settings. Has there be any changes to the default policy in
PAM concerning core dumps?

I would like to suppress the generation of core dumps for normal users.

ulimit -c as normal user gives me 976 block as root I get 0. I know
that setting ulimit -c 0 in .bash_profile or .profile could be a
solution but I'm looking for a more appropriate way to avoid core
dumps for normal users.

I already read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml but the
information there seems to be somehow outdated since I don't have a
/etc/limits.conf only a /etc/limits. But AFAIK this ought to be
irrelevant for me as I am using PAM?

Anyhow, I did not change anything to /etc/security/limits.conf or
/etc/limits, i.e. everything in these files is commented out. I also
checked /etc/conf.d/rc and it seems to be ok.

So how can I get rid of these core dumps?

I am using sys-libs/pam-0.78-r5.

Some more general information about my system:
# emerge --version
Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0,
2.6.19-ck2-r1 i686)

What else?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Christoph
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