[xymon at xymon1 tmp]$ file core.30776

core.30776: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from 'xymond_alert'

[xymon at xymon1 tmp]$ gdb ../bin/xymond_alert core.30776

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Reading symbols from /home/xymon/server/bin/xymond_alert...done.

Reading symbols from /lib/libpcre.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

Loaded symbols for /lib/libpcre.so.0

Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1

Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6

Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0

Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2

Core was generated by `xymond_alert --checkpoint-file=/home/xymon/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-in'.

Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.

#0 0x00485402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

(gdb) bt

#0 0x00485402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

#1 0x0066bdf0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6

#2 0x0066d701 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6

#3 0x0805ee13 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57

#4 <signal handler called>

#5 0x006b2eca in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6

#6 0x08053e4f in preprocess (buf=<value optimized out>) at loadalerts.c:138

#7 0x08054272 in load_alertconfig (configfn=0x0, defcolors=56, defaultinterval=1800) at loadalerts.c:308

#8 0x0804aafa in main (argc=1918990080, argv=0xbff783a4) at xymond_alert.c:831

(gdb) quit

[xymon at xymon1 tmp]$ uname -a

Linux xymon1 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Feb 21 05:53:18 EST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[xymon at xymon1 tmp]$ ls -lrt core*

-rw------- 1 xymon xymon 4014080 Apr 6 13:58 core.29948

-rw------- 1 xymon xymon 4014080 Apr 6 13:59 core.30244

-rw------- 1 xymon xymon 4014080 Apr 6 14:00 core.30371

-rw------- 1 xymon xymon 3956736 Apr 6 14:01 core.30418

-rw------- 1 xymon xymon 3956736 Apr 6 14:02 core.30432

-rw------- 1 xymon xymon 3956736 Apr 6 14:03 core.30776

Is there an easy way to verify your files in analysis.d when it refers to line numbers in the logs and you use multiple include files?

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