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4.4. Creating Software Failures for Testing

You can force a software failure in order to verify that your reporting configuration is working properly. The following example demonstrates using the kill command to send a signal 11 argument (segmentation fault) to an example process:
# abrt-cli list
# sleep 600 &
[1] 17564
# kill -11 17564
#
[1]+  Segmentation fault      (core dumped) sleep 600
#
# abrt-cli list
@0
Directory:      /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2013-05-14-04:56:17-17564
count:          1
executable:     /bin/sleep
package:        coreutils-8.4-19.el6
time:           Tue 14 May 2013 04:56:17 EDT
uid:            0
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