how to enable coredumps on debian 3.0 (woody)
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<html><body><p>Have you tried to change the default core size of 0 in Debian? The current default setting disables the writing of core files (coredumps) all together. Which is a pain in the you-know-where, when you have an application which crashes now and then and you don't know how to reproduce it.
So here's the deal:
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<li>Uncomment the line in /etc/security/limits.conf
<code>
hard core 10000
</code>
You might want to change the "hard" into "soft", so anyone can change the
setting again to something reasonable.
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<li>Uncomment the line in /etc/pam.d/login which says something like this
<code>
session required pam_limits.so
</code>
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