Re: Two Gnome Wishes

[Colin Marquardt <colin marquardt gmx de>]

* Craig Orsinger <orsingerc@epg-gw1.lewis.army.mil> writes:

> On 18-Oct-99 Phil Risby wrote:
>> 1) That everytine I run gnome ( whatever the wm) that I didnt have to clear
>> up the core files it always leaves behind
>> this has been a problem with all my installs ( 3 machines) with default RH 6.
>> 
>> Maybe some kind of tregular cleaning should be done to rid those core files
>> ( or even stop them in the first place :-)

>         I sense humor here. Nevertheless, I'll point out that 'cron' exists
> for just this sort of purpose. Have it run something like 

> find <home directory> -name core -exec rm {} \;

>         every week, day, hour, or minute, depending how reliable your
> GUI has become at dropping core files.

FWIW, the tickastat_applet from http://gqview.netpedia.net or
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/5235/ has a module
for that (among other usefule things). From the README file:

| Current Modules include:
[...]
|   - Core dump catcher: Monitors a path for core dumps, when one is found the
| 	core is renamed with a time stamp and a gdb backtrace is logged
| 	or (optionally) displayed.

Colin

-- 
Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>