Re: core symlinks
Jules van Weerden (Jules.vanWeerden@let.ruu.nl)
Fri, 26 Aug 1994 09:30:41 +0200
Hi,
woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) wrote:
> I think it is too, and here's at least one legitimate use of core symlinks.
> We've had problems in the past with core dumps from our 32 Meg machines
> that come from daemon processes filling up the root file system, so we
> solved that problem by making /core a symlink to /dev/null.
That can be solved to by creating a read-only file named core in the
directory where you need them.
A mail left a core file in /var/spool/mail and I made the next setup:
-r--r--r-- 2 root 0 May 11 1992 core
-r--r--r-- 2 root 0 May 11 1992 _let_it_be
It works.
Regards, Jules van Weerden
CIM Faculty of Arts
Utrecht University NL