core dump checking script.
I was testing a program which crashing every now and then. It is very difficult in such scenarios to keep looking for the <a class="zem_slink" title="Core dump" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump">core file or keep checking for the running process. So I wrote this simple script that can check for core file in the particular path and keep running until it finds one. You can hack this script to send a mail once the core is found. This is a very simple script. And this should work on solaris too..
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