Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:55:03 -0500 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: Steve Brown <gtabug@prayforwind.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .CORE files Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123185020.030944e0@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <20011123182901.A529@prayforwind.com>
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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
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