[moonclamp]

I'm having a problem with the cronjob ... I think:

I was getting a whole load of "core.xxxxx" files appearing in my forum root (xxxx being a seemingly random number)

These files were roughly 5 megs in size and appearing a couple of times every hour. It seems that they are coredumps generated by the server when a script failed to execute correctly.

Anyway, I removed the 'who's in chat cronjob' and haven't had one since

I've posted in other threads about it:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=990599

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=798184

this is the email I got from my webhost:

when a script causes a system error it outputs core files. These are created by the system, but they are caused by a script. I would recommend you make sure your board is up to date and also check your database has no errors. You can remove the core files without any issues!

I emailed them back, told them I was up to date and asked them to supress the errors ... they replied again with:

core files are caused by scripts that need extras and they write core files to assit them its normally when they request a lot of services and processes

or that the script colapses due to mad setup or modifcation, but be aware that we have some 3,000 peolpe on the servers using varing versions of VB with no problems

Like I said ... no errors since I removed the scheduled task