Andre Costa wrote: > Hi Rick, thks for the reply. Comments below: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 23:12, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx > <mailto:ricks@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 12/08/2009 03:44 PM, Andre Costa wrote: > > Hi, > > apps crashes are generating coredumps on /var/cache/abrt/* ; > since I > won't debug them myself and won't send them anywhere because > they're too > big, I would like to turn them off. I tried uncommenting > > #* soft core 0 > > on /etc/security/limits.conf but it did not work, coredumps > were still > being generated. > > > I believe you need to reboot for that to take effect. > > > I did that, to no avail :-( > > > Then I tried to set > > MaxCrashReportsSize = 0 > > directly on /etc/abrt/abrt.conf, restarted abrtd but it didn't > work > either (oddly enough abrt-gui doesn't allow changing this > setting, "ok" > button is disabled -- not even if I run it as root). > > So, as a last resource I created a script on /etc/cron.daily > to get rid > of the coredumps, but I'd rather not create them in the first > place. > > Anyone could give a hand? > > > Well, you should also, as root: > > echo 'fs.suid_dumpable = 0' >> /etc/sysctl.conf > sysctl -p > > That prevents suid programs from creating core files. You should > also make sure that there is a line to the effect: > > ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 > > is in /etc/profile so that all users have a core file dump limit size > of 0 bytes. > > > Cool, nice tips, will implement them and see if they finally free me > from these damned coredumps =/ (IMHO there should be an easier way of > doing that, considering this is a "new" feature shipped with F12) > Have you tried simply turning off the abrtd service? -- The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life. -- Calvin Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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