Re: Virus and file /proc/kcore

2002-09-04 Thread bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did a virus scan with clamscan and then f-prot. Clamscan notified > me of one virus: V801 in file /proc/kcore. Going to this file it is > VERY large (in fact takes up the majority of my partition). I can't > seem to rm or shred this file. f

Re: /proc/kcore

2001-05-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RL> can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for? The /proc filesystem consists entirely of virtual files created by the kernel for various purposes. kcore happens to be an image of the system memory; it's probably useful for ke

Re: /proc/kcore

2001-05-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for? Not really, but I can tell you what it is. It's a kernel representation of your system memory, made to look like a file, as is everything in /proc. Take a look at Documentation/proc

/proc/kcore

2001-05-01 Thread Renai LeMay
can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for? thanks, Renai

Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-15 Thread Onno
You have 128Mb of memory ;-) It maps your memory to that virtual file. It doen't take any space on your disk. Regards At 11:51 AM 11/13/99 -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could find (find / -name "core" -x

Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-14 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 13 Nov 1999, Riku Saikkonen wrote: > >On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: > >> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could > >> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, w

Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-13 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: >> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could >> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb. >> Is this

Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-13 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: > I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could > find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb. > Is this a monolithic core dump t

Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-13 Thread David J. Kanter
I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb. Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate t