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Originally Posted by Lynne
Do you have a cron job that runs a file named "core"?
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Originally Posted by Paul
What's in them ?
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LOL
What are they teaching you kids in computer science these days????
core dumps come from serious program crashes, such as seg faults or bus errors. The core file, which is appended by a timestamp or process id or something similar, contains binary debugging information on the problem that caused the crash which can be read with debugging tools.
These files are always called "coreXXXX" regardless of the program that created them. They can always be deleted and will not cause any problems.
Basically, you have a serious error in some executable.