I don't think it's possible to disable core dumps, but I'm not sure. I just thought I'd give you an idea I thought of when reading your post.
Why don't you run this program from a RAM disk? Mount a ramdrive and copy the program that dumps core to it. Make sure the program saves the product to a real partition. When It dumps core on the ramdrive it will not have enough room to save the core file. I don't know if core goes to /tmp in this situation but it's worth a shot if there's no way to disable core dumps. I also wonder if a redirect command can be used to send the core output to /dev/null? I've not heard of this so maybe someone with knowledge of core dumps can tell us if redirecting (2>,>) will redirect a core dump? I would be interested in knowing myself. On Sun, 11 May 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a commercial package for statistics installed on my debian system. > This is primarily for interactive use but because my programs take a long > time I run it using the nohup command in the background. The problem is > that after the program finishes its calculations and before it exits it > dumps core. This is highly likely caused by a bug in the comercial > package. The results are not affected. However, the core dumps are large > since the workfile of the program is dumped ( around 60 Mb ). > Getting the commercial company to do something about this didn't achieve > much. So I would like to know if there is away to disable core dumps for > this specific program or if this is not possible disable core dumps > completely. I don't get any core dumps apart from those anyway. > I would appreciate any help on this very much. > Thanks > George > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > George Kapetanios > Churchill College > Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
