Thanks Andrej and Manish.
I will try to see if I can use logrotat or atleast buy the logic from it.

Thanks,
SADA

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Manish Katiyar [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM, SADA SIVA REDDY S
[off-list ref] wrote:

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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

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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

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core files (not individual core files) ?

Any inputs appreciated.

May be "man logrotate" can help.

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Thanks -
Manish

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