Unable to generate core on RH 7.3

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:06:18AM -0700, Susan Macchia wrote:
> Well, when I (under bash) say 
> $ ulimit -a

[looks good]

> If I then say:
> 
> $ ulimit -c 1000
> $ ulimit -a

[also looks acceptable]

> Still no corefile gets produced (and it does on rh7.1 & 7.2.  The
> network is a network of linux machines.  My desktop is rh 7.3.  My
> account is NIS and my home is mounted and the same on all machines, so
> that eliminates differences in personal login configuration.  Does
> anyone know how & where I might try and find out what is going on here?

Bizarre. I see this in /etc/profile:

# No core files by default
ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1

And this in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions (in a function that
starts and stops daemons):

# make sure it doesn't core dump anywhere; while this could mask
# problems with the daemon, it also closes some security problems
ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1

That said, I'm really pretty stumped. This is one of those things
that should just work.

Kurt
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