please help me, what can i do with the bountiful amount of core files our systems seem to have on occassional basis?? how do I analyze it and determine why the core file was dumped by the application that dumped it. the operating systems we use are solaris, DG-UX and linux red hat systems.
Unless you are a hard-core programming debugging the reason for the core files, there really isn't much you can do 'cept for catalog when the cores occurred.
You should be able to delete them without any side effects.
If you want to know what program created them, type "file core" - this will work with at least the Redhat system...
Hi !
U can use dbx( on SUN it comes with Forte too ) ,gdb ( for linux ) etc and find the exact cause.
how do i use the programs you just mentioned?
gdb?? dbx??
explain please
Here is an introduction to gdb. There are many good tutorials on the web.
http://www.cs.ust.hk/~martin/01Springcomp151/FAQ/gdb-intro.htm