changing place of .core files

[Marco Beishuizen]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, RW wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:23:52 +0100 (CET)
> Marco Beishuizen <mbeis at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the
>> homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where
>> FreeBSD places it's core dumps?
>
> cd to another directory before starting the program.

This won't work most of the time because a lot of programs are not started 
by me as user. For example npviewer.bin core dumps a lot because of bad 
flash. But npviewer.bin is started by Firefox, not by me.

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