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.TH MINICOREDUMPER 1 "2016-09-14" "Ericsson" "minicoredumper"
.
.SH NAME
minicoredumper \- create a customized minimal
.BR core (5)
dump
.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B minicoredumper
.I pid
.I uid
.I gid
.I signal
.I timestamp
.I hostname
.I executable
.RI [ configuration-file ]
.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR minicoredumper
provides a highly configurable core dump mechanism. This program is intended
to be executed by the Linux
.BR core (5)
dump facility. By default the main configuration file is:
.PP
.RS
/etc/minicoredumper/minicoredumper.cfg.json
.RE
.PP
but can be overridden if the optional 8th argument is specified.
.PP
.BR minicoredumper
uses
.BR syslog (3)
to log its activity. The syslog
.I ident
is "minicoredumper" and the syslog
.I facility
is
.IR LOG_SYSLOG .
.
.SH EXAMPLE
Setup
.BR minicoredumper
to be used for
.BR core (5)
dumps.
.PP
.RS
.nf
echo '|/usr/sbin/minicoredumper %P %u %g %s %t %h %e' > \\
     /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
.fi
.RE
.
.SH FILES
/etc/minicoredumper/minicoredumper.cfg.json
.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR libminicoredumper (7),
.BR minicoredumper.cfg.json (5)
.PP
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