While mdb can be used to interact with the live kernel or probe into core dumps in complex and intimidating ways, it’s also not very hard to get some basic and very useful information from a core dump ...

To illustrate some of the many commands available with scat, I’m going to start up scat in its shorthand fashion — by providing the core dump “generation” as the only argument to the scat command. # ...

ITworld.com – If once every several years, you have problems with a process and end up with a troublesome core dump, you might be able to extract some useful information from the file before you ...