How to know the program that's dumping the core?

Question

I am seeing cores dumped in a particular directory continuously. I am sure there must a script that's continuously starting a process which is core-dumping and dying. But, how can I find which process is it?

Answer 1

You can use a debugger to look at the core file:

gdb --core=FILE

It should tell you what caused the dump.

Answer 2

You should also find that the kernel logs the name and PID of the process that faulted.