How to remove core files from your Sophos UTM
1. Turn on SSH Access on your UTM
Follow these 12 steps to turn on ssh access to your UTM 9.x OS
2. Login as Loginuser
Using Putty or Unix line ssh
connect
to your UTM
a) Unix: (ssh ipaddresss -p <port#> -l loginuser)
b) Putty: Pick the ssh and fill in the option.
3. Become Superuser
$ su <enterkey>
input root password, now you are loginuser elevated to root and you can do your work
4. Change direcotry to the cores location
# cd /var/storage/cores
5. Verify stuff in that in that directory
# ls -la
/var/storage/cores # ls -la
total 13079124
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 24 07:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Oct 4 2014 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13336576 Dec 4 2015 admin-reporter..23205
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 229376 Nov 29 2014 confd.plx.4256
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 218554368 Oct 5 2016 cssd.5866
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224866304 Jan 17 2017 cssd.9291
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23425024 Nov 5 2016 ctasd.bin.12189
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20770816 Nov 5 2016 ctasd.bin.12190
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21147648 Nov 23 2016 ctasd.bin.18996
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25112576 Nov 23 2016 ctasd.bin.19016
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17580032 Nov 23 2016 ctipd.bin.21812
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47149056 Jun 30 2016 ctipd.bin.5626
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22990848 Jun 30 2016 ctipd.bin.8368
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 171433984 Jun 10 2016 httpd.6046
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 616169472 Dec 28 2015 httpd.7605
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 779026432 Aug 7 05:35 httpproxy.NAVLWorker_02.22082
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2781777920 Aug 7 03:02 httpproxy.NAVLWorker_16.24396
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2746126336 Aug 7 04:14 httpproxy.NAVLWorker_21.19476
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2432536576 Aug 7 05:37 httpproxy.NAVLWorker_27.7562
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1667846144 Aug 7 06:08 httpproxy.NAVLWorker_28.10010
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1128423424 Jan 21 2016 postgres.19517
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65970176 Dec 11 2014 smtpd.bin.15507
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66179072 Dec 11 2014 smtpd.bin.19572
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65970176 Dec 11 2014 smtpd.bin.2604
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91181056 Feb 3 2015 smtpd.bin.29700
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66596864 Jan 5 2015 smtpd.bin.6579
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28999680 May 14 2015 ulogd.16066
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28995584 Apr 21 2015 ulogd.3217
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20582400 Jan 8 2015 ulogd.4441
6. Delete the core files from that directory
# rm *