Re: [Webware-discuss] Unexlpained server death

[Tavis R. <ta...@re...>]

> On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 13:06, Tracy Ruggles wrote:
> > The logs seem to show bot & spider activity at about the same time th=
at
> > server drops out, but, again I have no trace of what happened, or an
> > ability to verify that it's a bot that's killing it, or even being ab=
le
> > reproduce the error.  I've never tried to look at the core that's dum=
ped
> > when python itself dies, and wouldn't know where to begin.  Is there
> > anything else I can do to investigate this problem?

You can open the core file up with gdb.  Type: gdb python <corefilename>
Once inside gdb you can type 'where' to find out some info about what Pyt=
hon=20
was doing when it crashed.  See the gdb man page (or google) for more.