Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:09:19 +0100 (CET) From: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing place of .core files Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001170005500.2538@yokozuna.lan> In-Reply-To: <20100116230112.1db466f5@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001162317470.2538@yokozuna.lan> <20100116230112.1db466f5@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, RW wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:23:52 +0100 (CET) > Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the >> homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where >> FreeBSD places it's core dumps? > > cd to another directory before starting the program. This won't work most of the time because a lot of programs are not started by me as user. For example npviewer.bin core dumps a lot because of bad flash. But npviewer.bin is started by Firefox, not by me. -- Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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