[Pan-users] Re: pan-0.119 issue

[Matej Cepl]

Duncan scripst:
> Answering the question, core files are a system thing, not pan.  I don't
> know if it's a Linux-only feature or if the BSDs have it as well, and

core files are from the earliest days of Unix, so they should be available
everywhere the name of Kerningham & Ritchie is held in honor.

> There may be system defaults set in /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile, or
> something similar, or user defaults in your own user file equivalents
> (~/.bashrc and ~/.profile are the most common).

Many distributions eliminate core in runtime. On Fedora, you have to
enable them in /etc/sysconfig/init by adding

DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT=unlimited

and then in /etc/profile comment out line saying

ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1

and in /etc/security/limits.conf add line saying

@users               soft    core            unlimited

(I know, it's a lot).

Matěj

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