[102139] in RedHat Linux List
RE: strange "core" file in my home directory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Tue Dec 1 16:13:10 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 16:14:04 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: Darren Greer <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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the command 'file' will tell you more about it,
file core
then you could look at it in a debugger if not stripped of debug info.
something like
gdb <program name reported by 'file'> core
hth
charles
===== Original Message from Darren Greer <redhat-list@redhat.com> at
12/01/98 4:04 pm
>A core file can often occur from an abnormally terminated program. For the most part these
core files are safely deleted, but being rather new to linux myself, I would
be interested to hear what some of the gurus have to say about these.
>Thanks,
>
>DrGreer
>
-- Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
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