Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:14:45 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can I safely delete this? Message-ID: <20020824101445.A211@selvirjin.alltel.net> In-Reply-To: <1030190969.379.3.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>; from stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com on Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:09:28PM %2B0100 References: <1030190969.379.3.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:09:28PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: > I see this in my ~ dir: > -rw------- 1 <snip> <snip> 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
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