systemd-coredump

systemd
Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net
systemd-coredump 8
systemd-coredump Log and store core dumps

`/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump`

## Description

`systemd-coredump` can be used as a helper binary by the kernel when a user space program receives a fatal signal and dumps core. For it to be used in this capacity, it must be specified by the `kernel.core_pattern` sysctl 8 setting. Systemd installs `/usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf` which configures `kernel.core_pattern` to invoke `systemd-coredump`. This file may be masked or overriden to use a different setting following normal sysctl.d 5 rules.

The behaviour 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 coredump will only be processed when the related resource limits are high enough. For programs started by `systemd` those may be set using `LimitCore=` (see systemd.exec 5).

`systemd-coredump` will log the coredump including a backtrace if possible, and store the core (contents of process' memory contents) in an external file on disk in `/var/lib/systemd/coredump`, or directly in the journal. This behaviour may be modified using coredump.conf 5.

Apart from the journalctl 1 log viewer, coredumpctl 1 may be used to list and extract coredumps.

## See Also

coredump.conf 5, coredumpctl 1, systemd-journald.service 8, core 5, sysctl.d 5, systemd-sysctl.service 8.