From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sadasiva.reddy@gmail.com (SADA SIVA REDDY S) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 09:11:35 +0100 Subject: How to limit the total size used by core files or automatically delete old corefiles. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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 wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM, SADA SIVA REDDY S > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110527/a4d8edad/attachment.html