From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 23 16: 3:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts14.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1ED37B405 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:03:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from prayforwind.com ([199.243.146.213]) by tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011124000339.MMIO21779.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@prayforwind.com>; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:03:39 -0500 Received: (from gtabug@localhost) by prayforwind.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAO0DQi00633; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:13:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gtabug) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:13:25 -0500 From: Steve Brown To: Jim Conner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .CORE files Message-ID: <20011123191325.A574@prayforwind.com> References: <20011123182901.A529@prayforwind.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20011123185020.030944e0@mail.enterit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123185020.030944e0@mail.enterit.com>; from jconner@enterit.com on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:55:03PM -0500 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 Hi Jim, that was quick, thanks! I got a gcore, a RAY.score, a savecore; no valid .core files and I tried it in uppercase too. I guess I must have a very well administered system ;) (I installed it fresh 2 weeks ago so I'm not surprised I've not mucked it up yet) Thanks again, Cheers, Steve On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:55:03PM -0500, Jim Conner wrote: > At 18:29 11.23.2001 -0500, Steve Brown wrote: > >Hello there, > > > > >From time to time Netscape bonks out and when I leave X > >I find the message "Netscape blah blah core dumped" > >Sometimes I can find a .CORE file, other times I don't > >know where to look. So I have 2 questions: > > > >- How can I find -ALL- *CORE files, is there an equivalent > > of the old MS DOS "dir /s" ? > >- Why does it "dump core"? Am I supposed to do something > > with the resulting file? > > 1. find / -name "*core" -type f -ls > Be careful about cores that you find. Only remove those that are actually > core files. You can use the command: > > file corename > > That should tell you if the file is a real core file or not since there are > other files on the system (or directories which you shouldn't see with my > find command stated above) that are called core. > > 2. Netscape cores on probably everybody's machine at some time or > another. It is usually the result of poor coding (on Netscape's part) and > sometimes its the result of a poorly admin'ed system. In your case, I > would bet its netscapes code since I know a ton of people that get this > problem. It could also be a poorly set up Netscape that could cause > cores. Usually, the best thing to do is to remove the core file since its > really not needed for your sake. OR, you could send the core dumps to > Netscape so that they can examine why the core happened which is the > purpose of core dumps anyway. A core file is a physical readout of the > memory that netscape was using at the time it core'd. > > - Jim > > >Appreciate any advice, or hints as to where to RTFM. > > > >Thanks in advance, > >Steve > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > - Jim > > -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- > http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=67861&lastnode_id=67861 > > -----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > Version: 0.01 Version: 3.12 > P++>*@$c?P6?R+++>++++@$M GIT/CM/J d++(--) s++:++ a- > >++++$O!MA->++++E!> PU-->+++BD C++++(+) UB++++$L++++$S++++$ > $C-@D!>++++(-)$S++++@$X?WP+>++++MO!>+++ P++(+)>+++++ L+++(++++)>+++++$ !E* > +PP+++>++++n-CO?PO!o >++++G W++(+++) N+ o !K w--- PS---(-)@ PE > >*(!)$A-->++++@$Ee---(-)Ev++uL++>*@$uB+ Y+>+++ PGP t+(+++)>+++@ 5- X++ R@ > >*@$uS+>*@$uH+uo+w-@$m! tv+ b? DI-(+++) D+++(++) G(++++) > ------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message