Reco, thanks for reply!
> rgrep core /etc/security/limits* > Would be more correct. Files at /etc/security/limits.d/ can override > limits.conf. Indeed. Output of "rgrep core /etc/security/limits*" is following: $ rgrep core /etc/security/limits* /etc/security/limits.conf:# - core - limits the core file size (KB) /etc/security/limits.conf:* hard core 0 /etc/security/limits.conf:root hard core 0 /etc/security/limits.conf:#root hard core 100000 $ So in short, the configuration in my initial e-mail was enough to disable core dumps? After reading the "man 5 core", I also set the "kernel.core_uses_pid" to 0. thanks, Martin
