Re: [Sheflug] core files?

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Ross wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> in all the time i've been messing with linux, i've only come accross core files
> occationally. when i ran suse, they were automatically deleted after a while.
> 
> question......
> what are they and what are you suposed to do with them?
> 
> my systems seems stable enough, i'm just curious.......
> 

 No doubt everyone else knows more about this that me, but the core
files are core dumps - debuging information from when a program crashes.
 They're not plaintext, IIRC, but there are programs out there to read
them with.

 Me, I just delete them. It is possible to limit where core files are
dumped - i.e. none in /home etc, but I've forgotten how to do it.

 Baz.
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