How do I disable coredumps on F12?

[Andre Costa]

Hi Rick, thks for the reply. Comments below:

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 23:12, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:

> On 12/08/2009 03:44 PM, Andre Costa wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> apps crashes are generating coredumps on /var/cache/abrt/* ; since I
>> won't debug them myself and won't send them anywhere because they're too
>> big, I would like to turn them off. I tried uncommenting
>>
>> #*               soft    core            0
>>
>> on /etc/security/limits.conf but it did not work, coredumps were still
>> being generated.
>>
>
> I believe you need to reboot for that to take effect.


I did that, to no avail :-(


> Then I tried to set
>>
>> MaxCrashReportsSize = 0
>>
>> directly on /etc/abrt/abrt.conf, restarted abrtd but it didn't work
>> either (oddly enough abrt-gui doesn't allow changing this setting, "ok"
>> button is disabled -- not even if I run it as root).
>>
>> So, as a last resource I created a script on /etc/cron.daily to get rid
>> of the coredumps, but I'd rather not create them in the first place.
>>
>> Anyone could give a hand?
>>
>
> Well, you should also, as root:
>
>        echo 'fs.suid_dumpable = 0' >> /etc/sysctl.conf
>        sysctl -p
>
> That prevents suid programs from creating core files.  You should
> also make sure that there is a line to the effect:
>
>        ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> is in /etc/profile so that all users have a core file dump limit size
> of 0 bytes.
>

Cool, nice tips, will implement them and see if they finally free me from
these damned coredumps =/ (IMHO there should be an easier way of doing that,
considering this is a "new" feature shipped with F12)

Regards,

Andre
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