On 8/1/06, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:21:10PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: > > How does one enable core dumps for a daemon process? > > > > ulimit -c unlimited > > make sure permission to write is OK (e.g., /var/tmp) > > > > what else? > > Take a loot at /etc/security/limits.conf Thanks. Your suggested technique and another is discussed at <http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_47_2890.shtm>, which says in part: The first is to replace the above ulimit command in /etc/profile with the following: ulimit -S -c unlimited > /dev/null 2>1 Again, thanks for your help. rgds/ldv