From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 06:32:04 2004 Return-Path: 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 BDE7016A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 06:32:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F68943D31 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 06:31:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@MHoerich.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2004 06:31:57 -0000 Received: from pD9E582BB.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO localhost) (217.229.130.187) by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 27 Dec 2004 07:31:57 +0100 X-Authenticated: #5114400 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 07:35:13 +0100 From: Mario Hoerich To: cpghost@cordula.ws Message-ID: <20041227063513.GA523@Pandora.MHoerich.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041222182419.GA1804@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041222182419.GA1804@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: None, Inc X-OS: 5.3FreeBSD X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Chris Bearden Subject: Re: perl.core files in almost every dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 06:32:04 -0000 # cpghost@cordula.ws: [ lots of core dumps ] > > Has anybody ever seen perl.core files in a good number of the > > directories in FreeBSD? I'm running 5.3. [...] > Try to identify the script that triggers those coredumps, then > look at the extension modules used by that script. You might also want to gather coredumps somewhere central for easier cleanup. E.g. sysctl kern.corefile="/tmp/core/%U-%N.core" This makes all cores dump to /tmp/core in the form -.core HTH. Mario