Just a note.

You can enable core dump by:

[bash] edit /etc/profile

ulimit -c unlimited

[csh/tcsh] edit /etc/csh.cshrc

limit coredumpsize unlimited

You can disable core dump by:

[bash] edit /etc/profile

ulimit -c 0

[csh/tcsh] edit /etc/csh.cshrc

limit coredumpsize 0

On FreeBSD, you also need to check the setting of kern.coredump:

# sysctl -a |grep kern.coredump
kern.coredump: 0
# sysctl kern.coredump=1
kern.coredump: 0 -> 1
# sysctl -a | grep kern.coredump
kern.coredump: 1

You can enforce this setting in /etc/sysctl.conf

[2008/01/01] Thanks for the complement from gslin, kern.sugid_coredump controls the core dump for setuid/setgid process in FreeBSD.