systemd-coredumpctl systemd Developer Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl systemd-coredumpctl 1 systemd-coredumpctl Retrieve coredumps from the journal systemd-coredumpctl OPTIONS COMMAND PID|COMM|EXE|MATCH Description systemd-coredumpctl may be used to retrieve coredumps from systemd-journald8. Options The following options are understood: Print a short help text and exit. Print a short version string and exit. Print all possible data values the specified field takes in matching coredump entries of the journal. Write the core to . Do not pipe output of list into a pager. Do not print the column headers. 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 . gdb Invoke the GNU debugger on the last coredump matching specified characteristics. Matching Match can be: PID Process ID of the process that dumped core. An integer. COMM Name of the executable (matches ). Must not contain slashes. EXE Path to the executable (matches ). Must contain at least one slash. MATCH General journalctl predicates (see journalctl1). Must contain an equals sign. Exit status On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. Not finding any matching coredumps is treated as failure. See Also systemd-journald.service8, gdb1