On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Beth Gemeny wrote:
> First my kcore file is located in /proc/, not / (woops :-}). It cannot
> be removed with a normal rm under root. Problem is it is growing! It
> now consumes half of my 100MB root partition. Is this file pertinent to
> my systems operation? I have found only one reference to kcore and that
> is it is a file that can used with the gnu debugger to debug the kernel.
> I do not wish to debug my kernel right now.
Files in /proc aren't real files and don't take up any space on
the HD. Can't remember what kcore is off-hand but I think it's your ram.
> Secondly, I cannot find out where in memory the debug messages from
> uugetty go, but it appears that with out an express line in syslog.conf
> for debug messages they sit somewhere in memory and get spewed to the
> screen when memory is cleared during a shutdown/reboot. I have created
> this line in syslog.conf so future connections will be debuggable. The
> last connection's debug messages are somewhere and if you all can tell
> me where so I can retrieve them, it would be a tremendous help.
Aren't these in /var/log/messages? Check the files in /var/log
and see if there's any in there with those messages.
> Sorry this is so long. Any responses would be greatly appreciated!
Can you turn off the html encoding of your mail? I had to hand
edit this a bit in order to reply. (Please don't tell me you're using
Outlook! <g>)
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