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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-05-28 11:14:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-05-28 11:37:32 +0200 |
| commit | 8626fdd2defede66d840a85b3ed1fd5705a030cc (patch) | |
| tree | 3d715f54ee377adca854548f0eae73fff538c71d /man5 | |
| parent | 94c50673e6dbbb550e8a7d7a6090949e38fdd3c4 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-8626fdd2defede66d840a85b3ed1fd5705a030cc.tar.gz | |
core.5: Mention 'sysctl -w' as a way of changing core_pattern setting
Reported-by: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/core.5 | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index 9725ff64a0..6dbaa69b8e 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ For more extensive details, see the .BR coredumpctl (1) manual page. .PP -To disable the +To (persistently) disable the .BR systemd (1) mechanism that archives core dumps, restoring to something more like traditional Linux behavior, one can set an override for the @@ -548,6 +548,18 @@ mechanism, using something like: .EE .in .PP +It is also possible to temporarily (i.e., until the next reboot) change the +.I core_patter +setting using a command such as the following +(which causes the names of core dump files to include the executable name +as well as the number of the signal which triggered the core dump): +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +# \fBsysctl \-w kernel.core_pattern="%e\-%s.core"\fP +.EE +.in +.PP .\" .SH NOTES The |