Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2014-06-27 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 24.06.14 15:21, Lennart Poettering (lenn...@poettering.net) wrote: On Mon, 23.06.14 14:29, Dave Reisner (d...@falconindy.com) wrote: Anyway, I hope this makes sense. With these changes coredumpctl actually is now really useful and just works. I have thus dropped the

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2014-06-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.06.14 14:29, Dave Reisner (d...@falconindy.com) wrote: Anyway, I hope this makes sense. With these changes coredumpctl actually is now really useful and just works. I have thus dropped the systemd- prefix. We should probably start advertising it more. Are there plans to

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2014-06-23 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le vendredi 20 juin 2014 à 20:02 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit : 2) I change the paths to store this in. I drop the coredumps in /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ now. While the journal logs appear to be something worth sharing across the network as logs; I am not convinced that the

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2014-06-23 Thread Michael Biebl
2014-06-23 10:28 GMT+02:00 Frederic Crozat fcro...@suse.com: Le vendredi 20 juin 2014 à 20:02 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit : 2) I change the paths to store this in. I drop the coredumps in /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ now. While the journal logs appear to be something worth sharing

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2014-06-23 Thread Dave Reisner
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 08:02:54PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 14.05.13 19:09, Oleksii Shevchuk (alx...@gmail.com) wrote: Heya! Sorry for resurrecting this thread from last year. I never found the time to merge this, but I finally had a closer look and then sat down and tried

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2014-06-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 14.05.13 19:09, Oleksii Shevchuk (alx...@gmail.com) wrote: Heya! Sorry for resurrecting this thread from last year. I never found the time to merge this, but I finally had a closer look and then sat down and tried to isolate out of it what I liked and what I didn't. I commited different

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2014-06-20 Thread Michael Biebl
2014-06-20 20:02 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net: So here's what is implemented in git now: a) There's a configuration file /etc/systemd/coredump.conf with some of the options you proposed. b) We will now store coredumps outside of the journal by default, but you

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2013-05-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Oleksii Shevchuk For security reasons. It will be better if user will not have access to own cores by default (situation is the same with journal backend in upstream now). Why? When apps like gpg/lastpass/whatelse-with-passwords crashes, then user probably will not be very

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2013-05-22 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Oleksii Shevchuk For security reasons. It will be better if user will not have access to own cores by default (situation is the same with journal backend in upstream now). Why? When apps like

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2013-05-21 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 19:09 +0300, Oleksii Shevchuk wrote: Introduce configuration file: /etc/systemd/coredump.conf with configurable core dumps backend storages (journal/file/both/none), per storage size limits and preprocessing. Who would want both and why? Oh, though maybe you answer this

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2013-05-21 Thread Oleksii Shevchuk
Ideally for this case it'd be a pipe; that way we avoid writing a potentially large file to disk only to write a smaller version again. I thought about that. With cores there is no way to do transparent piping with postproc. All tools mmap cores, so in real world they will be dumped anyway..

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2013-05-21 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 17:05 +0300, Oleksii Shevchuk wrote: For security reasons. It will be better if user will not have access to own cores by default (situation is the same with journal backend in upstream now). Why? Yeah, I'll add some, if idea with temporary files will be accepted in

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2013-05-21 Thread Oleksii Shevchuk
For security reasons. It will be better if user will not have access to own cores by default (situation is the same with journal backend in upstream now). Why? When apps like gpg/lastpass/whatelse-with-passwords crashes, then user probably will not be very happy to have all that data

[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

2013-05-14 Thread Oleksii Shevchuk
Introduce configuration file: /etc/systemd/coredump.conf with configurable core dumps backend storages (journal/file/both/none), per storage size limits and preprocessing. Default filestorage choosed as /run/log/coredump or /var/log/coredump with next reason: 1. These files produced with systemd