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RE: strange "core" file in my home directory

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Fall)
Tue Dec 1 16:25:20 1998

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 16:23:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <75A9508F64A2D111B89C00609710A6CF14EBF3@adrian>
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Eric Cifreo wrote:

> If not, there's nothing wrong with deleting them.
> There used to be a utility, something like "skulker",
> that you could schedule to cruise your hard disk at
> night, and discard all those "cores".

Those with no interest in core files can do better than that.  I believe
there is a way to tell your system not to ever dump core into files.
Unfortunately, I don't remember how you do it.

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