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From: lee@man-as1s07.erols.com (Lee Cremeans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: List of process signals and their meanings?
Date: 12 Mar 1997 11:52:49 GMT
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In article <01bc2e65$cb356520$aee68bcd@maurizio>,
	"David Buttrick" <debut@mvp.net> writes:
> I get this error in my messages file:
> 
> Feb 20 15:02:47 geekthree /kernel: pid 251 (web500gw), uid 0: exited on
> signal 11 (core dumped)
> 
> I know what web500gw is, and I know that it runs fine, even after it has
> exited, but I don't know what signal 11 is, so I can't easily look for the
> problem so that I can fix it.

Signal 11 is a "segmentation fault", which happens when a program tries to 
access parts of memory it's not allowed to. It's usually a sign of a bug in 
the program.  If you get it a lot, you may have bad memory or cache.

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