Quarantine: don't save core files

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
> I reported a few days ago about an ancient boot virus that caused
> sophos to core.  MailScanner obligingly moved the core files to
> quarantine, filling up my filesystem.  I know this is an oddball
> case, but maybe MS can do an unlink("core") as part of the quarantine
> step to keep cores outta there.  One could always recreate the
> core by hand for Sophos Inc from the contents of the quarantine.
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College


Jeff,

Couldn't you use "ulimit -c 0" in your MS start file to make core files 
nonexistent for MS and all its children?

Denis

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