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systemd-coredump(8)

NAME

   systemd-coredump, systemd-coredump.socket, systemd-coredump@.service -
   Acquire, save and process core dumps

SYNOPSIS

   /lib/systemd/systemd-coredump

   systemd-coredump@.service

   systemd-coredump.socket

DESCRIPTION

   systemd-coredump is a system service that can acquire core dumps from
   the kernel and handle them in various ways.

   Core dumps can be written to the journal or saved as a file. Once saved
   they can be retrieved for further processing, for example in gdb(1).

   By default, systemd-coredump will log the core dump including a
   backtrace if possible to the journal and store the core dump itself in
   an external file in /var/lib/systemd/coredump.

   When the kernel invokes systemd-coredump to handle a core dump, it will
   connect to the socket created by the systemd-coredump.socket unit,
   which in turn will spawn a systemd-coredump@.service instance to
   process the core dump. Hence systemd-coredump.socket and
   systemd-coredump@.service are helper units which do the actual
   processing of core dumps and are subject to normal service management.

   The behavior of a specific program upon reception of a signal is
   governed by a few factors which are described in detail in core(5). In
   particular, the core dump will only be processed when the related
   resource limits are sufficient.

CONFIGURATION

   For programs started by systemd process resource limits can be set by
   directive LimitCore=, see systemd.exec(5).

   In order to be used systemd-coredump must be configured in sysctl(8)
   parameter kernel.core_pattern. The syntax of this parameter is
   explained in core(5). Systemd installs the file
   /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf which configures kernel.core_pattern
   accordingly. This file may be masked or overridden to use a different
   setting following normal sysctl.d(5) rules. If the sysctl configuration
   is modified, it must be updated in the kernel before it takes effect,
   see sysctl(8) and systemd-sysctl(8).

   The behavior of systemd-coredump itself is configured through the
   configuration file /etc/systemd/coredump.conf and corresponding
   snippets /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.d/*.conf, see coredump.conf(5). A
   new instance of systemd-coredump is invoked upon receiving every core
   dump. Therefore, changes in these files will take effect the next time
   a core dump is received.

   Resources used by core dump files are restricted in two ways.
   Parameters like maximum size of acquired core dumps and files can be
   set in files /etc/systemd/coredump.conf and snippets mentioned above.
   In addition the storage time of core dump files is restricted by
   systemd-tmpfiles, corresponding settings are by default in
   /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf.

USAGE

   Data stored in the journal can be viewed with journalctl(1) as usual.
   coredumpctl(1) can be used to retrieve saved core dumps independent of
   their location, to display information and to process them e.g. by
   passing to the GNU debugger (gdb).

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