On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 17:06, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Core dump files are globally set off in /etc/init.d/functions and in > /etc/profile. Yes, and right now both are as shipped: in /etc/init.d/functions, ulimit is used to set coredump size limit to 0 for daemons; and /etc/profile also sets it to 0 for sh/bash scripts. I've not changed these. Which makes it doubly puzzling that CROND sits forever in state 'coredump'. -- Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge