From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 7:15:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E589537B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta02-srv.alltel.net (mta02.alltel.net [166.102.165.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CED43E75 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:15:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cd9@buffalo.edu) Received: from selvirjin.alltel.net ([166.102.201.118]) by mta02-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20020824141522.VQL28341.mta02-srv.alltel.net@selvirjin.alltel.net> for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:15:22 -0500 Received: from dragon by selvirjin.alltel.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17ibgb-000040-00; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:14:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:14:45 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Can I safely delete this? Message-ID: <20020824101445.A211@selvirjin.alltel.net> Mail-Followup-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD Questions References: <1030190969.379.3.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1030190969.379.3.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>; from stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com on Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:09:28PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:09:28PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: > I see this in my ~ dir: > -rw------- 1 23461888 Aug 1 22:39 opera.core > > Can I safely delete this file? > 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. If you're really paranoid, run "file ~/opera.core" first to make sure it's really a core file. It should say something like: /usr/home/foo/opera.core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file (signal 4477762), Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), from 'opera' Note: The signal number is bogus, because the magic for that is tuned for Linux. -- ..: Chad Daelhousen == cd9@buffalo.edu :.........: sig v3.1 :... : Programming for 10 +/- 2 years (50 +/- 10% of a lifetime) : :.............Perl will be the first to implement mind reading.: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message