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Document COMPRESS_USER_CORES, and the new %I and %H core formatters.

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Alfred Perlstein 2010-03-02 18:43:12 +00:00
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@ -68,13 +68,27 @@ the core image to.
This filename can be absolute, or relative (which
will resolve to the current working directory of the program
generating it).
Any sequence of
.Em \&%N
in this filename template will be replaced by the process name,
.Em \&%P
by the processes PID, and
.Em \&%U
by the UID.
.Pp
The following format specifiers may be used in the
.Va kern.corefile
sysctl to insert additional information into the resulting core file
name:
.Bl -tag -width "1234567890" -compact -offset "12345"
.It Em \&%H
Machine hostname.
.It Em \&%I
An index starting at zero until the sysctl
.Em debug.num_cores
is reached. This can be useful for limiting the number of corefiles
generated by a particular process.
.It Em \&%N
process name.
.It Em \&%P
processes PID.
.It Em \&%U
process UID.
.El
.Pp
The name defaults to
.Em \&%N.core ,
yielding the traditional
@ -89,6 +103,26 @@ changed to generate a core dump by setting the
variable
.Va kern.sugid_coredump
to 1.
.Pp
Corefiles can be compressed by the kernel if the following items
are included in the kernel configuration file:
.Bl -tag -width "1234567890" -compact -offset "12345"
.It options
COMPRESS_USER_CORES
.It devices
gzio
.El
.Pp
When COMPRESS_USER_CORES is included the following sysctls can control
if core files will be compressed:
.Bl -tag -width "kern.compress_user_cores_gzlevel" -compact -offset "12345"
.It Em kern.compress_user_cores_gzlevel
Gzip compression level. Defaults to -1.
.It Em kern.compress_user_cores
Actually compress user cores. Core files will have the suffix
.Em .gz
appended to them.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
In order to store all core images in per-user private areas under
.Pa /var/coredumps ,