Well, you're aparently NOT getting any console messages about this;
you might check other consoles, however (press Alt-F1 or Alt-F7),
but the main thing to do is to try starting the apps you use from a
console, with the "&" at the end of the command-line (after any args),
so that those apps have a "stdout" to pipe their messages to...
If any of you didn't know, a core file being dumped means an app has
crashed in some "nasty" way, and it's trying to give you debug info.
It's not that useful unless you REALLY know what's going on, when you
could potentially recover any data that was in memory at the time the app
crashed. It can be interesting to type "strings core" on the file, either
with "|more" tacked on, or piped to a file ("|filename.txt"), since they
tend to be rather large. When I dump core on the SunOS machines here at
school, the files tend to be around 4 megs, sometimes larger, depending on
the app and it's usages...
Basically, some app is misbehaving, though it isn't really awful unless it
really interferes with your productivity :/
happy day!
ben
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Rob Hudson wrote:
> There is some program that I use that keeps dropping a core file in my
> home directory. I keep deleting them, but I'd like to know what is
> doing it. Is there a way to look at it and find this out so I can
> (hopefully) fix the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob.
>
