From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 27 6:38: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mission.mvnc.edu (mission.mvnc.edu [149.143.2.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B9014E2C for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 06:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu) Received: from localhost (kdrobnac@localhost) by mission.mvnc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA01946; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:36:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:36:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenny Drobnack To: Scott Cc: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: what's a core dump In-Reply-To: <37C540D2.1723D2BF@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A core dump is when your program crashes and it kind of poops the contents of memory out onto a disk... Unless you really want to learn how to dissect a misbehaving program, its safe just to delete the thing, as it just takes up disk space. > what's a core dump? something gives me the feeling that i must have > done something wrong :( > thanks y'all > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > ----- We are now the Knights who say... "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG! Zoom-Boing! Z'nourrwringmm!" ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message