[arch-general] systemd and core dumps

[Jan Steffens]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Olivier Langlois
<olivier at olivierlanglois.net> wrote:
> Apparently core dumps (if enabled) are stored in the systemd journal.
>
>  ~ $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
> |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %p %u %g %s %t %e
>
> systemd-coredumpctl looks nice to use but I am not totally sure yet that
> collecting core dumps in the journal is something that I want
> systematically.
>
> I am looking for a way to override this. I haven't found any mention of
> that option in systemd documentation.
>
> Does anyone here would have an idea where I could search?
>
> Olivier

Make /etc/sysctl.d/coredump.conf a link to /dev/null. This will
override /usr/lib/sysctl.d/coredump.conf.