----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Core Dump
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Suryo Mataram wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm new with LINUX. Can anyone tell me what Core Dump is all about?
> > Many thank's in advance.
> >
> > Suryo Mataram.
> >
> >
>
>
> When something crashes or exits abnormally it may "core dump"...
> I'm no expert but I think this is the programms way of trying to preserve
> debugging or unsaved info????? ..in anycase, you'll be left with a file
> called 'core'....which I guess is useless unless you're some kina expert.
> so I'd remove it. TIP it may be a good idea to serch for files called
> 'core' now and again and remove them as they can take up a lot of space.
Just make sure you don't delete the ones that really should be there like
'/proc/core' for instance - there are probably others too - imagine that
could cause havoc if you got shot of them ;-)
>
> you can also add options to some programms to prevent core dumps...I'm not
> sure if this has to be done in the compile stage though.
>
> Al.
>
