Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Generating core file in ethereal

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> This is not handled in ethereal; it's handled by your Unix
> environment. Run this before running ethereal:
>
> $ ulimit -c unlimited
>
> The ulimit command shows your system resource limits. This command:
>
> $ ulimit -a
>
> will show your current limits. You should run it to see what your
> limit for "core file size" is set to.

Or, for C shell/TCSH users, "limit coredumpsize unlimited" to set the 
core dump size to "unlimited" and "limit" to show the resource limits.

Note that set-UID and set-GID programs will not dump core, and if you 
don't have write access to the directory into which core dumps are 
written (typically the current working directory of the process, 
although OS X, by default, will write them to /cores) a core dump won't 
be written.