Hi Guys,
I was wondering if somebody could give me a link to a very good source of information or document about core dump process and How to's about it. I have also googled it and found some articles myself.
Thanks
Messi
Well, the major how to is that core files can be partially identified with file, and if you know the execuatble, you can easily get a stack trace from a debugger like dbx or gdb. I used to have cron jobs search for core files, identify the executable, trace the stack, send it to us in an email, compress the core file and stash it in /tmp (which was automatically cleaned of week old files. (You cannot examine a core file if it is overwritten, and it is bad security and SDLC to ignore them and leave them around.) The open source of gdb should be a rich source on info on core structures.