[Cialug] CORE files

[Mark Hesseltine]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:03:21 -0600, Doug Hesseltine
<hesseltine@earthlink.net> wrote:
>  The site I'm trying to load does not have any use of the cgi-bin or "MT"   
>  I did several searches on google and did not find anything that I fealt was
> relavent to the core files.  
>  
>  I am relatively new to linux so maybe I am missing something you more
> experienced users are trying to tell me :)
>  
>  Mark Hesseltine wrote: 
>  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
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Doug:
Could you post one of these core files. There might be something in
that file that could refer us to what is causing the core dump.
-- 
Mark Hesseltine
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