From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 31 01:17:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01459 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:17:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01447 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:17:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA02221; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:47:21 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id TAA16551; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:47:20 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981031194720.Q28493@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:47:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jason C. Wells" , "Stephen A. Derdau" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is netscape.bin.core References: <363A3DA8.C35E1400@ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 11:42:16PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 30 October 1998 at 23:42:16 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Stephen A. Derdau wrote: > >> What is this file netscape.bin.core that seems to fill >> up and take up major disk space ? > > Any file name *.core is the memory image of a program that crashed. It may > be safely removed. That depends. If you want to find out *why* the program^H^H^H^Hcess crashed, the key is in the .core file. Throw it away and you'll never find out. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message