>> The system administrator of the main system I use recently installed a
>> script which automagically deletes all directory entries named 'core'
>> every time it's run, which looks like hourly.
>how about asking him to change his script to only delete *files* named core and not
>directories. a core dump cannot be a directory!
That still deletes legitimate files named core that are not core
files. Use "file" to determine if it is a corefile.
-- Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocateLinux software galore: http://freshmeat.net
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