Re: How do I disable coredumps on F12?

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?