[Cialug] CORE files

[David Champion]

Mark Hesseltine wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:11:11 -0600, Doug Hesseltine
> <hesseltine@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have a server running Fedora and cPanel.  On this server I have a site
>>using a php/MySQL ecommerce cart OS-Commerce.   For some reason the site is
>>getting errors and generating files in the root WWW folder named core.####
>>(some number)  It looks as though a new file is created each time the site
>>cannot display a page (which I am not sure what is causing this problem
>>either)  
>> 
>> These core files range in size and are quickly filling up the available
>>drive space if not regularly deleted.  
> 
> 
> A quick Google found this:
> http://bloghouse.net/index.php?p=24
> Something about searching lots of comments causing a core dump.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Another problem which I am not sure is related or not but the site
>>continues to get Internal Server errors at various times.  One time the page
>>appears to load fine and another the error is displayed.  I have other sites
>>on the same server that are working fine.
>> 
>> Can anybody help me out in determining what these core files are and how to
>>stop them?

Hmmm... sounds like a bug in the cgi-bin. Is that "MT" cgi OSS, or 
binary only?

-dc