Re: tlug: core

[Totoro <riley@example.com>]

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>tlug note from "Jim Schweizer" <schweiz@example.com>
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>Hi all,
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>I'm having a great time with this SparcLinux box, but it doesn't act
>at all like Slackware.
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>For instance, what is the file 'core' doing (and growing by leaps and
>bounds) in the root directory. There's no man page for it and whatis
>says there's nothing appropriate. can I safely delete this when it
>gets too big? It's already at 344064.

It's a text file that your system is writing for you to tell you
about program dumps and crashes. You can change your shell .xxxxrc
file to stop it if you want. You can also nuke it and it won't
result in the end of life as you know it. Or you can see what it
might tell you about the "segmentation faults," and other such
error messages you may have seen on the terminal.

Thanks to Matt Welsh's "Running LINUX" for this condensed reply...

David
Hachinohe Institute of Technology
88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki  Hachinohe-shi  Aomori-ken  031


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