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author | AJ Jordan <alex@strugee.net> | 2020-12-14 15:35:43 -0800 |
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committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2021-01-07 16:18:29 +0100 |
commit | c6ef002b80b3334e770a50e5eb9bae93a716da68 (patch) | |
tree | 81d08b48a952dfb77e9fa20b8e124072742d63bc /man/systemd-coredump.xml | |
parent | 60bce7c6d9606185114df1bdcd5ea100407688b8 (diff) | |
download | systemd-c6ef002b80b3334e770a50e5eb9bae93a716da68.tar.gz |
man: clarify that coredumps are gc'd after 3 days
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-rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-coredump.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-coredump.xml b/man/systemd-coredump.xml index 4ac6de1ee2..f92cfd55ea 100644 --- a/man/systemd-coredump.xml +++ b/man/systemd-coredump.xml @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ <para>By default, <command>systemd-coredump</command> will log the core dump including a backtrace if possible to the journal and store the core dump itself in an external file in - <filename>/var/lib/systemd/coredump</filename>.</para> + <filename>/var/lib/systemd/coredump</filename>. These core dumps are deleted after a few days by + default; see <filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf</filename> for details.</para> <para>The behavior of a specific program upon reception of a signal is governed by a few factors which are described in detail in @@ -111,7 +112,8 @@ <para>Resources used by core dump files are restricted in two ways. Parameters like maximum size of acquired core dumps and files can be set in files <filename>/etc/systemd/coredump.conf</filename> and snippets mentioned above. In addition the storage time of core dump files is restricted by <command>systemd-tmpfiles</command>, - corresponding settings are by default in <filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf</filename>.</para> + corresponding settings are by default in <filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf</filename>. The default is + to delete core dumps after a few days; see the above file for details.</para> <refsect2> <title>Disabling coredump processing</title> |