Rules Related To 'kexec-tools'

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Disable KDump Kernel Crash Analyzer (kdump)

service_kdump_disabled

Description

The kdump-tools service provides a kernel crash dump analyzer. It uses the kexec system call to boot a secondary kernel ("capture" kernel) following a system crash, which can load information from the crashed kernel for analysis. The kdump-tools service can be disabled with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl mask --now kdump-tools.service

Rationale

Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. Kernel core dumps consume a considerable amount of disk space and may result in denial of service by exhausting the available space on the target file system partition. Unless the system is used for kernel development or testing, there is little need to run the kdump service.