How to Disable Crash Dump Files

1. Become superuser.

2. Edit the /etc/init.d/sysetup file, inserting a comment mark (#) at the beginning of each of the lines shown below.

   #if [ ! -d /var/crash/`uname -n` ] #then mkdir -p /var/crash/`uname -n` #fi # echo `checking for crash dump...\c ` #savecore /var/crash/`uname -n` # echo ''

3. Save the changes.

4. Remove the file set up for crash dumps from the /var/crash directory.

   # rm -rf /var/crash/system-name

   system-name

   Name of the system which will no longer save crash dump files.