Hubert Mantel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, Subba Rao wrote:
>
> > I have noticed that my system has daily core dump in the root / directory. The
>only binaries on / are the
> > kernels. This has happened with kernels SuSE 5.2 through 2.0.36
> >
> > Is anyone experiencing the same problem? It is odd that a kernel core dumps on a
>daily basis.
> > What and how, do I look for in the core dump, to detect the error?
>
> I don't think the kernel dumps core on a daily basis. Some time a program
> dumped core. Now you get a warning every day from cron that it found a
> core file which is older than 7 days. Just remove it.
Also one could activate a setting in /etc/rc.config
DELETE_OLD_CORE="yes"
#how old are 'old' core files? (in days)
MAX_DAYS_FOR_CORE=7
you could change this to below 7 days
my 2cts
rob
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