reopen 956435 thanks On Saturday, 11 April 2020 5:17:44 PM AEST Michael Biebl wrote: > Does does have a way to delete old coredumps and does it automatically. > > $ grep coredump /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/* > /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf:d /var/lib/systemd/coredump 0755 root > root 3d > > Files that are older then 3 days are deleted automatically. > You can tweak those settings obviously by providing your own tmpfile > snippet.
If you just rm files you get the below result where coredumps are described as "missing", a proper solution would remove them from the list. Also whatever the proper solution is deemed to be needs to be documented, the man page mentions nothing about this. Among other things there should be a way of limiting disk space usage to avoid running out of free space from large core dumps. TIME PID UID GID SIG COREFILE EXE Wed 2020-04-08 10:02:41 UTC 2096 0 0 11 present /usr/sbin/ semodule Fri 2020-04-10 09:53:03 UTC 54273 0 0 11 present /usr/sbin/ semodule Fri 2020-04-10 09:55:30 UTC 54361 0 0 11 present /usr/sbin/ semodule Fri 2020-04-10 11:17:41 UTC 56681 0 0 3 missing /usr/sbin/ load_po> Fri 2020-04-10 11:34:00 UTC 57546 0 0 3 missing /usr/sbin/ load_po> Fri 2020-04-10 11:35:19 UTC 57616 0 0 3 missing /usr/sbin/ load_po> Fri 2020-04-10 16:33:49 UTC 70655 0 0 11 present /usr/sbin/ load_po> Sat 2020-04-11 04:23:04 UTC 92165 0 0 11 present /usr/sbin/ semodule -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
