On Saturday 18 October 2003 16:27, Ron Stodden wrote: > 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 pid of the process crashed > The only 3rd party software is my gShield firewall and privoxy called > by mozilla as 127.0.0.1. ok, this maybe a coredump. can you place it on the web somewhere, so someone with enough skill to run "file core.5465" can enlighten us with the name of the crashed program ? you can also put some of the file that filed your hard disk before. -- Micha�l Scherer
