[Cialug] CORE files

[Mark Hesseltine]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:58:23 -0600, David Champion <dave@visionary.com> wrote:
> 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
I have no idea. My first assumption is that it's Movable Type, but I'm
just guessing.
-- 
Mark Hesseltine
mailto:markhesseltine@gmail.com