You can use an old unix trick Create a directory core with 000 perms. Regards, Luka On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Stefan Moeding <dba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > Ozgur Ozdemircili writes: > > Weird yet I have the max_dump_file_size =1024 > > > > Until now I have been going with a script that check the file size and > > {echo "" > file }`s it every minute. > > > > Any more thoughts? > > Core files are written by the operating system and the OS obviously does > not honor the parameter. Depending on the shell the ulimit (/bin/sh and > family) or limit (/bin/csh and family) command can tell you the allowed > core size and also limit the size. > > Log in as oracle and (assuming a /bin/sh) run > > $ ulimit -a > > This should tell you among other things the maximum core size that the > oracle user can write. With > > $ ulimit -c 0 > > the generation of core files should be disabled for all processes > started in this shell. Restarting the listener in this shell should do > the trick as all server processes are forked from the listener. > > -- > Stefan > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >