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Name

systemd-coredumpctl — Retrieve coredumps from the journal

Synopsis

systemd-coredumpctl [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND} [PID|COMM|EXE|MATCH...]

Description

systemd-coredumpctl may be used to retrieve coredumps from systemd-journald(8).

Options

The following options are understood:

--help, -h

Print a short help text and exit.

--version

Print a short version string and exit.

--output=FILE, -o FILE

Write the core to FILE.

--no-pager

Do not pipe output of list into a pager.

The following commands are understood:

list

List coredumps captured in the journal matching specified characteristics.

dump

Extract the last coredump matching specified characteristics. Coredump will be written on stdout, unless an output file is specified with -o/--output.

Matching

Match can be:

PID

Process ID of the process that dumped core. An integer.

COMM

Name of the executable (matches COREDUMP_COMM=). Must not contain slashes.

EXE

Path to the executable (matches COREDUMP_EXE=). Must contain at least one slash.

MATCH

General journalctl predicates (see journalctl(1)). Must contain an equals sign.

Exit status

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. Not finding any mathing coredumps is treated as failure.

See Also

systemd-journald.service(8)