From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 11:57:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1BB3151F2 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:56:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.1.2] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10zOLU-000P9z-00; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:40:28 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10zOLW-0001Hl-00; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:40:30 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:40:29 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Marty C , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD is cool Message-ID: <19990630184029.A4888@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3779C4BA.41C67EA6@globalserve.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > *** warning untested idea *** > > sysctl -w kern.corefile=/dev/null > > ***************************** > > please let me know how it works, btw I take no responcibility if > this hoses your machine, you do so at your own risk. I don't think that would work, since the core dump routine (elf_coredump in imgact_elf.c) checks that the file to dump to is a regular file. aout_coredump makes the same check. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message