Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:08:11 -0400 From: "Kevin A. Pieckiel" <kpieckiel@smartrafficenter.org> To: "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu> Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can I safely delete this? Message-ID: <20020911170811.GB93658@pacer.dmz.smartrafficenter.org> In-Reply-To: <20020824101445.A211@selvirjin.alltel.net> References: <1030190969.379.3.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020824101445.A211@selvirjin.alltel.net>
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--H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 10:14:45AM -0400, C. A. Daelhousen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:09:28PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > I see this in my ~ dir: > > -rw------- 1 <snip> <snip> 23461888 Aug 1 22:39 opera.core > >=20 > > Can I safely delete this file? > >=20 >=20 > Probably. Core files occur when you get a crash, and are only useful > for debugging. You can change the name it drops with the kern.corefile > sysctl, or disable them with kern.coredump. >=20 > If you're really paranoid, run "file ~/opera.core" first to make sure > it's really a core file. It should say something like: >=20 > /usr/home/foo/opera.core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file (signal 4477762), > Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), from 'opera' >=20 > Note: The signal number is bogus, because the magic for that is tuned > for Linux. "Tuned for Linux?" What, was this utility adopted from Linux or something? "The real world is not user-friendly." -- Kelvin Throop III --- This message was signed by GnuPG. E-Mail kpieckiel-pgp@smartrafficenter.org to receive my public key. You may also get my key from wwwkeys.us.pgp.net; my ID is 0xF1604E92 and will expire on 01 January 2003. --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9f3h6c3iJbvFgTpIRAucOAJ4oX1tAusO96N+IuCmVKdTFyMMuJACfU7IO 8Lt43vFdQYxLgnaFjNbGFBk= =ftnI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H+4ONPRPur6+Ovig-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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