jave core under /

[joe_91]

Team:

We had a core from java and it falls under /. Is there a way i can make the core to occupy some other filesystem other than /? I mean create an empty core file and link to some dir etc..Any Ideas?

Thanks

Joe.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Joe,

# ln -s /file_system/core core

# ls -s /dev/null core

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The core file contains valueable debugging data so it's not a good idea not to produce the file. It is bad that it is doing it in /. The answer is to start the process under a different directory; hopefully the java process itself does not do a chdir() to /. Core files are always sent to a process's current working directory.

[joe_91]

Clay:

Actually i think i did not put the question properly. Ofcourse we need to debug the core file so we need it. Only thing was i did not want it to be under /.

Thanks

Joe.

[lawrenzo]

do you know what application or job is outputting the core file and where is it run from?

What I have found is that if a script or application fails, the core file is created in the directory where the script is run.

Not sure if this is the case here.

HTH