On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, McGraw, Robert P <[email protected]> wrote: > In /tmp/amanda I see for the first time a file "core20100603" what is this > file?
It's a core file. Depending on your OS configuration, it can be created when a process is killed by a fatal error like a segfault. They're usually not particularly helpful, but can be used locally with a debugger to explore the state of the process just before it died. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
