V Suresh rearranged electrons thusly:
Please fix your date - today is not Feb 8 2001.
> Sometimes a file named core is stored in my /root directory
> and it is often in MBs. what is it and how do I stop it?
Delete it. It's caused when something crashes in linux.
-s
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