On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 13:04 -0400, Matt Roth wrote: > Patrick wrote: > > > I would like to make sure that apps running as <some non-root user> can > > dump core of any size. Would adding the following line > > to /etc/security/limits.conf accomplish this? > > > > <user> soft core 0 > > I believe that will prevent the user from being able to create core > files. Try this instead: > > <user> soft core unlimited > <user> hard core unlimited > > Keep in mind that limits.conf is only applied to logins. If you're > running the apps from init scripts, modify them to include the following > lines prior to launching the apps: > > ulimit -Sc unlimited > ulimit -Hc unlimited Matt, Thanks for the information. I was thinking about the login you mentioned. The primary application I need this for is Asterisk. Like apache it is started as root and by passing -U <user> -G <group> parameters it will run as that <user>/<group> (asterisk/asterisk in my case). Do I still need to add the info to the initscript or do I add it to limits.conf? Thanks and regards, Patrick
