Mystery: core.* Files in root??

Hi!
I have two strange files in the root of my Modx site. Both have names that begin with "core." and end with a long number.

They don’t appear to be hurting anything, but they’re fairly large, like 71 megs. I have made a lot of changes in the past few days. I wonder if it’s some kind of File Dung. Maybe if I get really crazy I’ll open one and look.

My site is working fine. Ever seen anything like this?

Thanks!

They are core dumps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump

Something internal to your server environment is failing, and this is the result. It has nothing to do with MODx.

Quote from: doze at Apr 02, 2007, 01:32 PM

They are core dumps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump

Doze,
Thanks!

Based on the date, I think I know what happened. This probably relates to my other post under "9.5 issues". I installed 9.5 over my 9.2 system, and then I tried doing some testing with the datagrid, which produced very strange results, even using the simple TV suggested in the documentation.

I have one of those suckers open in my editor, and sure enough, there are references to my ModX installation and the datagrid. But I don’t know how to read hex, so I guess I’ll just remain in the dark. My usual crude method of bug-finding, doing displays, will probably wreak havoc on the server again, so I guess I’ll continue to use 9.2, and let some better PHP programmer put the Datagrid through its paces with the newer code!

I wish there was some way to do a minimal upgrade, maybe just biggest security bugs or something. But then I woke up!

Cheers, D