Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:13:33 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | RE: Directory name problem... |
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On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>> The system administrator of the main system I use recently installed a >> script which automagically deletes all directory entries named 'core' >> every time it's run, which looks like hourly. >how about asking him to change his script to only delete *files* named core and not >directories. a core dump cannot be a directory!
That still deletes legitimate files named core that are not core files. Use "file" to determine if it is a corefile.
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