Collecting User Process Core Dumps

Enabling core dump collection

In Linux, the option to collect core dumps is switched off by default; however, we can turn it on with:

This method only turns on the collection of core dump files on a temporary basis. If we want to enable it permanently for every user, then we add or uncomment the following line in the /etc/security/limits.conf file (note that root can still override it).

Also, if we want to limit root to 1 GB, we add or comment the following line in this file:

Note: A process core dump is stored in the process’s working directory on ...