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Helloo! Hope someone can put my mind at rest... I've been using Gnome2.6 on mandrake10.1 OE, and every and then i'm getting a little bomb icon appear in my Home file, with 'core.' followed by a set of numbers anywhere from 4 to 6 digits long.
Can someone please tell me what they mean, and what should be done with them? I've been moving them straight to the wastebasket and deleting them. Am I a fool, or am I right to do this?
core files are indeed dumps... they contain debug
information which may be useful for the developer
of the program (or yourself if you're a coder and
want to know why your app crashes) ... to a normal
user they're irrelevant and can be deleted.
If you are not a coder and know you will always delete them. Save yourself some time and add the following line to either ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile (whichever you have already)
ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
This makes the core file size limit zero and deletes the empty files. If you want this to be the default reaction for the entire system just add it to "/etc/profile"
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