I noticed today the presence of a new file under the cleaned up /root directory:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l
total 7608
-rw-------    1 root     root      7827456 Oct 18 23:35 core.5465
drwx------    3 root     root         4096 Oct 18 02:47 Desktop/
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Oct 16 07:44 drakx/
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Oct 18 18:56 tmp/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

Quite possibly all the files that eventually filled up the /root directory were all such core dumps @ 7.8 MB each. Inspection of /var/log/messages showed nothing helpful.

What does the 5465 indicate?

The only 3rd party software is my gShield firewall and privoxy called by mozilla as 127.0.0.1.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Ron Stodden wrote:


The degree of dramaticness has nothing to do with whether there is a reproducible bug report. This has occurrred three times under 9.1 and now once under 9.2 on this one machine, which is otherwise 100% long term totally stable. I need some kind of daemon that will watch all the time for /root/*.nnnnn file creation, but that is beyond my skill level.


can you give some examples of what is in * ? I have a hunch that it is some kind of java program doing this (at least 2 i know have the habit of creating nnnnnn files, although not so many). IIRC matlab also dumps errors in *.nnnnn So, what kind of 3rd party software do you use, if any?

d.





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