From: Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger@t-online.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:30:22 +0200 (MEST)

Re: hacking methods to find out bugs

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Julian v. Bock wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Ville Hallik wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have a SUSE 6.0 based system with kernel 2.2.10
> > > > SUSE 6.0 is based on glibc2.0. And I don't get a core dump, only when I
> > > > run it with gdb...
> > > 
> > > Seems that coredumps are not allowed by default in Your system. If
> > > Your login shell is bash, then read "help ulimit".
> 
> [...]
> 
> edit your /etc/profile and comment out ulimit -Sc 0

Done. Now I've got a 20MB big file called "core". The file-command says:

	core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1

Well, how can I use it? Why is it so big?

Christoph Egger
E-Mail: Christoph_Egger@t-online.de