strange files appearing on server

hi

i am not sure if this is the best place as i am not sure what the source of problem is. hopefully i will find out in this thread.

i am getting a lot of .core*** files in my server public_html directory. the *** are random numbers. as quick as i am deleting these files they are regenerating and i dont know hat they are or why they are there.

does any one have any ideas or suggestions.

thanks

 

Sounds like you have a script or job of some sort that is running and crashing.

-Raymond

 

They possibly sound like core dumps. Can you paste some of the output within code tags (or in PasteBin) so we can take a look?

Jay

 

It seems you have SMF installed on that web site. I had the same problem on one the websites running on SMF. But I never got the solution.

Kailash

 

thanks for the input. i have figured it must be somthing to do with smf and probably a bug with the mod.

i suspect it may be something to do with the pretty_url mod so i have sitched it off for the minute and will see how things are later on.

at the minute i cannot open one of the core files to see what is in it. but i will try to open one of them tonight after work.

 

core dumps are dumps of the memory of the process. you will not be able to open the files with a text editor.

It is more likely to do with php/apache than it is to do with any php code.

 

What appears before the .core in the file name?

 

I can analyze these corefiles for you to see what's crashing. Just PM.

 

its okay i have been getting support form simplemachine.org. these core dumps are created by unix when it crashes. i am on shared hosting and obviously i have no control over the server software the host is running. i can only wait until they sort out the problem.