Smarts: How to prevent generating core file
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Smarts: How to prevent generating core file

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Article ID: 331954

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Products

VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

Core files may be disabled on all UNIX or Linux systems through the use of the ulimit command:

ulimit -c 0

This will configure the current process and any child processes to limit core file size to 0 bytes, which disables their creation.