Debian Bug report logs - #857300
makedumpfile: Please add a dump-core script

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From: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: makedumpfile: Please add a dump-core script

Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 19:40:12 +0100

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Package: makedumpfile
Version: 1:1.6.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

Some users might want to store core dumps in the same place as kernel
dumps (especially when storing them on a remote machine). To avoid
having to configure two scripts, add a dump-core script to kdump-tools.
It will use the same configuration file as kdump-tools.

Set /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern to pipe the core dumps to dump-core.
You can use following sysctl configuration file:

  $ cat /etc/sysctl.d/50-dump-core.conf
  kernel.core_pattern = |/usr/share/kdump-tools/dump-core %e-pid%p-sig%s-%t
  # 2 = "suidsafe": Any binary which normally would not be dumped (see "0")
  # is dumped readable by root only.
  fs.suid_dumpable = 2
  $ sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/50-dump-core.conf

A patch is attached. Please review it carefully. Some could is
duplicated and probably should be placed in a shell library file.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
System Developer
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

ProfitBricks GmbH
Greifswalder Str. 207
D - 10405 Berlin

Email: benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com
URL:  http://www.profitbricks.com

Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin.
Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506B.
Geschäftsführer: Andreas Gauger, Achim Weiss.

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Message #10 received at 857300@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com>

To: 857300@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#857300: makedumpfile: Please add a dump-core script

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:16:09 +0100

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Hi,

I enhanced the dump-core script to collect meta-data information in
apport's crash file format to ease the crash file analysis. An updated
patch is attached.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
System Developer
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

ProfitBricks GmbH
Greifswalder Str. 207
D - 10405 Berlin

Email: benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com
URL:  http://www.profitbricks.com

Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin.
Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506B.
Geschäftsführer: Andreas Gauger, Achim Weiss.

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