How to limit the total size used by core files or automatically delete old corefiles.

[sadasiva.reddy@gmail.com (SADA SIVA REDDY S)]

Thanks Andrej and Manish.
I will try to see if I can use logrotat or atleast buy the logic from it.

Thanks,
SADA

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM, SADA SIVA REDDY S
> <sadasiva.reddy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi  All,
> >    I have a situation like below. I am using RHEL 5.
> >
> > I have multiple user processes running on my machine.
> > I have set the appropriate sizes for core file size.
> > But my process maangement demon is designed to restart any process that
> > terminates.
> > Hence the process starts up again.
> > If I have a very bad nasty defect, it will keep on filling my machine
> with
> > core files until I run out of space on the partition.
> >
> > My Questions:
> >
> > Is there a provision in Linux to automatically cleanup the old corefiles
> > when we reach a certain limit ?
> > Is there a provision in Linux to set a upper limit for space occupied by
> all
> > core files (not individual core files) ?
> >
> > Any inputs appreciated.
>
> May be "man logrotate" can help.
>
> --
> Thanks -
> Manish
>
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