Lukas Nellen: > Please don't do that. Wheras no sane person with any UN*X experience > would name a file `core', locate core reveals, among others, on my system, /dev/core and /x/usr/src/linux-1.3.84/net/core. The latter is a directory, the former a symlink. Neither must be removed. But the list of core files would be useful. I found four core's just now. :)