Find which program caused a core dump file

Question

I\'ve been going through intense program/package installation recently, so I can\'t tell for sure which of the newly installed programs (or old programs) caused the appearance o

Answer 1

You can simply use the file program to identify them:

E.g

# file /var/core/core
/var/core/core:     ELF 64-bit MSB core file SPARCV9 Version 1, from 'crs_stat.bin'