Server core

Question

Have a sles11sp3 / oes11sp2 box running my GW2012sp2 primary post
office and mta. It also runs GW messenger 2.2.2 and has sophos a/v on
it (v9.6.1).
I have a little portal page I inserted into the folder structure of
apache2.
About 10 minutes ago, I tried to bring up a secondary page from said
portal and my sles box cored.
Wondering the best way to get this core file analyzed, either by
someone here or NTS. Kicker is the core file is 2.5GB in size.
Any suggestions?
Stevo

Answer 1

Originally Posted by Stevo
kjhurni sounds like they 'said':
> If it's GroupWise that made the core, isn't there a special .sh file
> you need to create? There's a TID for GroupWise Cores.
> I thought that general Linux OS cores were handled differently than
> novell-getcore (only ever seen that for GroupWise stuff)
>
> But it's been a while.
So my response to kjhurni's comment is...
That's the thing, I don't know what caused the server to core.
Stevo
To my knowledge (and I could be wrong), in order for a core file to be generated, you'd have to have configured "some" file to write a core. The 3 to my knowledge are GroupWise, the LInux OS itself and eDirectory (probably via the same method as the OS).
Do you recall if you've edited/adjusted the files to get a coredump?
And hopefully which one?
If it's GroupWise you should have a file like:
core.XXXXX
where XXXXX = some PID # an it should match one of the pid.XXXXX that's in the GroupWise /logs directory (depends on if it was POA, MTA, etc.)
Then you follow that TID to create the .sh file that uses novell-getcore to get the contents and zip it up for sending to Novell.
--Kevin