Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Coredumps

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:14:24 -0600
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:08:46AM -0600, Lars Knudsen wrote:
> 
> 
> Greetings..
> 
> I know this might be a very stupid question, but anyroads.. here goes..
> 
> I have "sniffed" on a customer and the save file coredumps ethereal
> everytime I try to print to a ASCII file. Is there a "check for errors"
> way/application for ethereal (or does anyone know how to make one..)

If I understand your question correctly, you want to know what caused
the core dump. Look at the README file in the Ethereal distribution.
It explains how to use the debugger ('gdb' if you use the GNU debugger) to
examine a core file.

--gilbert