[102141] in RedHat Linux List
RE: strange "core" file in my home directory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cifreo)
Tue Dec 1 16:14:32 1998
From: Eric Cifreo <Eric@kazan.com>
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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:12:44 -0600
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> the sudden appearance of a file in my home directory
> (/home/carneym) on
> my otherwise perfectly happy RedHat 5.1 system. The listing is:
>
> -rw------ 1 carneym carneym 11403264 Nov 24 06:41 core
>
> I guess I can spare the 11MB, but the file kinda spooks me.
>
> Can anybody shed a little light on this probably
> not-so-mysterious "core"
> file.
>
> --Carney Mimms
> --Rebus, Inc.
Core files are dumped by programs as they crash:
generally the image of what was going on in RAM
as it went down. Core files can be useful for
understanding what went wrong, so if you have the
know how, examine the core file with debugging tools.
If not, there's nothing wrong with deleting them.
There used to be a utility, something like "skulker",
that you could schedule to cruise your hard disk at
night, and discard all those "cores".
Eric Cifreo
Austin, TX
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