Usually core files have just the name "core" I have not seen any core files with the date attached and the fact that it was in /tmp/amanda and owned by amanda I thought it might be some file created by amanda.
Thanks Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Dustin J. Mitchell > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:31 PM > To: McGraw, Robert P > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: I see a file core20100603 > > > 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
