Hello Thomas,
> Where does one specify this parameter on a system-wide basis? My older
> RedHat boxes all have a non-zero limit for this parameter, and allow
> setting the limit to infinity by users. Don't know if Mandrake is
> configured differently from RH6.1, but until I get this adjusted it
> doesn't make a reasonable development machine...
I have Mandrake 6.0 though I think I know your problem. In
/etc/profile, there's an entry there where it limits core dumps to
100000 I think for root. You might want to remove that or make it
unlimited.
Regards,
Neil D. Quiogue
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