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My ISP just switched from NCSA to Apache (to support FrontPage 98
extensions).  The servers are SGI/IRIX I believe.  Since the change to
Apache I am getting httpd.core dump files in many of my html
directories.  I just deleted 16 megs of them.

I assume this is some sort of memory dump from the httpd daemon
process.  So, my questions are:

1)  What are some likely causes that would create all these dump
files?

2)  What are some possible fixes (if we know some possible causes) to
stop this from happening.

I never had this problem using NCSA, so I am pretty confident it has
something to do with either Apache, the FrontPage 98 extensions, or
both.

Thanks,
  -Dean

Ask your ISP.  They are the only ones who can debug it.

If the web server is core dumping in your web directories, that
is not normal.  First off, they shouldn't normally be writable
by the web server.  Secondly, Apache doesn't normally change
directories to your documents directory so it wouldn't dump
core there.

This may be something related to the silly frontpage modules.  You
really need to go through this with your ISP.

Quote:>My ISP just switched from NCSA to Apache (to support FrontPage 98
>extensions).  The servers are SGI/IRIX I believe.  Since the change to
>Apache I am getting httpd.core dump files in many of my html
>directories.  I just deleted 16 megs of them.
>I assume this is some sort of memory dump from the httpd daemon
>process.  So, my questions are:
>1)  What are some likely causes that would create all these dump
>files?
>2)  What are some possible fixes (if we know some possible causes) to
>stop this from happening.
>I never had this problem using NCSA, so I am pretty confident it has
>something to do with either Apache, the FrontPage 98 extensions, or
>both.