man: add coredump.conf(5)

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2014-06-26 01:02:48 -04:00
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if ENABLE_COREDUMP
MANPAGES += \
man/coredump.conf.5 \
man/coredumpctl.1
MANPAGES_ALIAS += \
#
@ -1483,6 +1484,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \
man/bootctl.xml \
man/bootup.xml \
man/busctl.xml \
man/coredump.conf.xml \
man/coredumpctl.xml \
man/crypttab.xml \
man/daemon.xml \

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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<refentry id="coredump.conf" conditional="ENABLE_COREDUMP">
<refentryinfo>
<title>coredump.conf</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>coredump.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>coredump.conf</refname>
<refpurpose>Coredump storage configuration file</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<para><filename>/etc/systemd/coredump.conf</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>This file configures the behaviour of <command>systemd-coredump</command>,
a handler for core dumps invoked by the kernel.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>All options are configured in the
<literal>[Coredump]</literal> section:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Storage=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Controls where to store cores. One of
<literal>none</literal>, <literal>external</literal>,
<literal>journal</literal>, and <literal>both</literal>. When
<literal>none</literal> the coredumps will be logged but not
stored permanently. When <literal>external</literal> (the
default), cores will be stored in <filename>/var/lib/systemd/coredump</filename>.
When <literal>journal</literal>, cores will be stored in
the journal and rotated following normal journal
rotation patterns. When <literal>both</literal>, cores
will be stored in both locations.</para>
<para>When cores are stored in the journal, they might be
compressed following journal compression settings, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
When cores are stored externally, they will be compressed
by default, see below.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Compression=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Controls the type of compression for external
storage. One of <literal>xz</literal> or
<literal>none</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>CompressionLevel=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Controls the level of compression for external
storage. An integer between 0 and 9. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>xz</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more details.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>ProcessSizeMax=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The maximum size in bytes of a core
which will be processed. Coredumps exceeding this size
will be logged, but the backtrace will not be generated
and the core will not be stored.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>ExternalSizeMax=</varname></term>
<term><varname>JournalSizeMax=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The maximum (uncompressed) size in bytes of a
core to be saved.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>

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[Coredump]
#Storage=external
#Compression=xz
#CompressionLevel=6
#ProcessSizeMax=2G
#ExternalSizeMax=2G
#JournalSizeMax=767M