On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:08:11PM +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Selon Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>:
> 
> > > I've looked into the client /tmp/amanda/*.log and there seem to be
> > nothing anormal in the log files
> > > but there is a core file (is it a core dump ? Is there an error ?)
> > 
> > Don't know if it works on AIX, but on Solaris and HP-UX the "file"
> > command
> > tells you what command dumped the core file.  And of course the
> 
> Sorry but core doesn't tells me anything useful.
> But as this core file is created inside the /tmp/amanda directory, and the
> timestamp is during the amdump, I think that yes, it comes from an amanda 
> crash.

Likely I was unclear.
When I said "file" command I mean run a command called "file".
As in:

    $ file /tmp
    /tmp:      directory

    $ file stocks sunscreen
    stocks:    executable /usr/local/bin/perl script
    sunscreen: Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) v1.2

    file core
    core:      ELF 32-bit LSB core file 80386 Version 1, from 'timidity'
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The marked section 'may' tell you what application core dumped.
I'm not sure whether AIX does or not.

Then we may be able to focus on some thing specific.

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