how to enable coredumps on debian 3.0 (woody)

Have you tried to change the default core size of 0 in Debian? The current default setting disables the writing of core files (coredumps) all together. Which is a pain in the you-know-where, when you have an application which crashes now and then and you don't know how to reproduce it.

So here's the deal:

1. Uncomment the line in /etc/security/limits.conf

   *               hard    core            10000
   

   You might want to change the "hard" into "soft", so anyone can change the

   setting again to something reasonable.

2. Uncomment the line in /etc/pam.d/login which says something like this

   session    required   pam_limits.so