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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
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Subject: Re: Core dumps
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Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:

[...]

> The only RHEL installations I've used came with core dumps disabled -- I
> tried to convince the sysadm to enable them, but he argued "they are
> disabled by default, and I don't want to change that in case they have
> a reason for it".

It should usually be possible to enable coredumps for all children of
a specific (shell) process by increasing the 'soft coreump limit' with
ulimit -c.