Setting a common directory for capturing kernel crashdump and application coredumps
Issue
- Should we keep a common directory for capturing vmcore and application coredumps?
- What are best practices when we need to unify crash directory for multiple programs.
- Can we set
kernel.core_patternto/var/crashso that application crashes be dumped there.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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