(DP) Support Tip: How to enable CORE dumps on Linux/Unix

You may be asked to provide a CORE dump on a process crash for backline support or as a data collection action plan.

here are the steps to enable CORE dumps on both Linux and Unix

Linux:

mkdir -p /var/core
chmod a+rwx /var/core
 
echo kernel.core_pattern=/var/core/core.%e.%p >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo \*  soft  core  unlimited >> /etc/security/limits.conf       # permanently ulimit -c unlimited
 
reboot

HPUX:

mkdir -p /var/core
chmod a+rwx /var/core
 
/usr/bin/coreadm -e global -g /var/core/core.%f.%p