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-<refentry id="systemd-coredump" conditional='ENABLE_COREDUMP'
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
-
- <refentryinfo>
- <title>systemd-coredump</title>
- <productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
- </refentryinfo>
-
- <refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>systemd-coredump</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </refmeta>
-
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>systemd-coredump</refname>
- <refname>systemd-coredump.socket</refname>
- <refname>systemd-coredump@.service</refname>
- <refpurpose>Acquire, save and process core dumps</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
-
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <para><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump</filename></para>
- <para><filename>systemd-coredump@.service</filename></para>
- <para><filename>systemd-coredump.socket</filename></para>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Description</title>
- <para><command>systemd-coredump</command> is a system service that can acquire core dumps
- from the kernel and handle them in various ways.</para>
-
- <para>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
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>gdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- </para>
-
- <para>By default, <command>systemd-coredump</command> will log the core dump including a backtrace
- if possible to the journal and store the core dump itself in an external file in
- <filename>/var/lib/systemd/coredump</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>When the kernel invokes <command>systemd-coredump</command> to handle a core dump,
- it will connect to the socket created by the <filename>systemd-coredump.socket</filename>
- unit, which in turn will spawn a <filename>systemd-coredump@.service</filename> instance
- to process the core dump. Hence <filename>systemd-coredump.socket</filename>
- and <filename>systemd-coredump@.service</filename> are helper units which do the actual
- processing of core dumps and are subject to normal service management.</para>
-
- <para>The behavior of a specific program upon reception of a signal is governed by a few
- factors which are described in detail in
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>core</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- In particular, the core dump will only be processed when the related resource limits are sufficient.
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Configuration</title>
- <para>For programs started by <command>systemd</command> process resource limits can be set by directive
- <varname>LimitCore=</varname>, see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- </para>
-
- <para>In order to be used <command>systemd-coredump</command> must be configured in
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- parameter <varname>kernel.core_pattern</varname>. The syntax of this parameter is explained in
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>core</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- Systemd installs the file <filename>/usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf</filename> which configures
- <varname>kernel.core_pattern</varname> accordingly. This file may be masked or overridden to use a different
- setting following normal
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- rules.
- If the sysctl configuration is modified, it must be updated in the kernel before
- it takes effect, see
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- and
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- </para>
-
- <para>The behavior of <command>systemd-coredump</command> itself is configured through the configuration file
- <filename>/etc/systemd/coredump.conf</filename> and corresponding snippets
- <filename>/etc/systemd/coredump.conf.d/*.conf</filename>, see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredump.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. A new
- instance of <command>systemd-coredump</command> is invoked upon receiving every core dump. Therefore, changes
- in these files will take effect the next time a core dump is received.</para>
-
- <para>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 <filename>/etc/systemd/coredump.conf</filename> and snippets mentioned
- above. In addition the storage time of core dump files is restricted by <command>systemd-tmpfiles</command>,
- corresponding settings are by default in <filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf</filename>.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Usage</title>
- <para>Data stored in the journal can be viewed with
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- as usual.
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- 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).</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredump.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>core</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-sysctl.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-</refentry>