core files

[loccom]

Hi

I have loads of core files in the root of my forum. Is this normal and are they save to remove...

[Sonya*]

It has nothing to do with IPS. Those core files are created by your server when it encounters some sort of critical error. Your host tech support should have the means to examine the core files and determine what program died, what it was doing, and possibly even what caused it to go down. You should not just delete them if there are a lot of them in short time.

[loccom]

some of these are in back up times. very odd as this has only been happening last few months.

I will look further in to it, maybe the backups are causing boards to go offline for a short while.