How to limit the total size used by core files or automatically delete old corefiles.

[Manish Katiyar]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM, SADA SIVA REDDY S
<sadasiva.reddy at gmail.com> 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.

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Thanks -
Manish