> Is there any way to get the linux kernel do coredump application on a
> pointed directory ?
> I whould like to have a enviroment variable "CORE_DUMP_DIR", so my
> coredumps
> do not write to current directory. (Im not even sure if it is the kernel
> that is handling
> the coredump. But I cant figure out any other way it could work so a ask
> here)
> Is there such a feature ? Whould also be good to have the coredumps
> named in a
> better way than just core.
>
If you kind of are annoyed of core files that can be quite large then
what you might try is ln -s /dev/null ~/core..
Brian
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