[FreeNX-kNX] "core" file in homedir

[Fabian Franz]

> Marcin Owsiany schreef:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:08:43PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I see in the homedir of every user a file called "core". What is this 
> >> for a file,
> > 
> > It's a memory dump of a program which crashed 
> > 
> >> and why does it come in the homedir and not in ~/.nx or /tmp?

Because path seems to be set to that one, when nxagent is started.

> > Probably because it crashed when it was running in your home directory.
> > 
> > You can use the "file" command to check what program that was.
> 
> Thanks, it seems that it's nxagent:

> When I remove the file and login/out with NX, it's not there anymore.
> But i see all users have such a core-file. And it's somtimes a big file. 
> Mine is 117 MB.

You can completely disable core files via ulimit and normally /etc/security/limits.conf.

cu

Fabian