In the last few days, every time I work on a site I have that is running wsnlinks I get umpteen core files dumped on the system. Googling core files I find that these are files that contained dumped material from a program that has crashed or something.
Today I have been working on a test site and everytime I do something I have to go in and delete these core files - some are nearly 40 meg!! - before I can do anything as I run out of space.
This happened to me a while ago and then mysteriously stopped, but has now started again. WSNLinks is the only script running on the site I am working on today.
Any ideas why these files are being made? I can see no problems, nothing crashes, they just appear!
I'm guessing your PHP installation is set to hide errors, and write them to log files instead. You should have a look at what the errors are. I'm pretty sure PHP only writes to one file named error_log or the like though.
If the files are binary then they're coming from some other program you have installed.
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Paul, I'm hoping you can help
In the last few days, every time I work on a site I have that is running wsnlinks I get umpteen core files dumped on the system. Googling core files I find that these are files that contained dumped material from a program that has crashed or something.
Today I have been working on a test site and everytime I do something I have to go in and delete these core files - some are nearly 40 meg!! - before I can do anything as I run out of space.
This happened to me a while ago and then mysteriously stopped, but has now started again. WSNLinks is the only script running on the site I am working on today.
Any ideas why these files are being made? I can see no problems, nothing crashes, they just appear!
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I'm guessing your PHP installation is set to hide errors, and write them to log files instead. You should have a look at what the errors are. I'm pretty sure PHP only writes to one file named error_log or the like though.
If the files are binary then they're coming from some other program you have installed.