How To Install and Use ABRT CLI on RHEL 7
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This document discusses how to install, configure, and use the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) command line interface (CLI) on Linux. It provides instructions on installing the abrt-cli package, checking and starting the abrtd service, viewing the default ABRT configuration, enabling auto reporting, configuring SELinux for ABRT, listing dump files, and describes various ABRT CLI commands to list, report, get info on, remove, and process issues.
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How To Install and Use ABRT CLI on RHEL 7
- 1. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI i | P a g e Contents Overview.......................................................................................................................................................1 Verify Installed Status ...................................................................................................................................1 Install Package...........................................................................................................................................1 Check Service Status .................................................................................................................................2 Start Service..............................................................................................................................................2 ABRT Default Configuration..........................................................................................................................3 Enable Auto Reporting..................................................................................................................................3 Configure SELinux – ABRT.............................................................................................................................4 Listing Dump Files .....................................................................................................................................4 View SELinux Setting.................................................................................................................................5 Modify SELinux Setting .............................................................................................................................5 ABRT CLI Commands.....................................................................................................................................5 ABRT Issue – Listing...................................................................................................................................6 ABRT Issue – Detailed Listing ....................................................................................................................7 ABRT Issue – Reporting.............................................................................................................................7 ABRT Issue – Info.......................................................................................................................................8 ABRT Issue – Status...................................................................................................................................8 ABRT Issue – Remove................................................................................................................................8 ABRT Issue – Process.................................................................................................................................8
- 2. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI 1 | P a g e Overview The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool or ABRT, consists of the abrtd daemon is a daemon that watches for application crashes and stores them into core dump file and takes according to the defined configuration “abrt.conf”. The daemon runs silently in the background most of the time, and springs into action when an application crashes or a kernel oops is detected. The daemon then collects the relevant problem data such as a core file if there is one, the crashing application's command-line parameters, and other data of forensic utility. Verify Installed Status Before you install the “abrt-cli” package, verify if the package is already installed, to verify package installation status, run the command; yum list installed abrt-cli Install Package After verification and if the “abrt-cli” package is not installed; install the package, to install run the command; yum install abrt-cli -y -q
- 3. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI 2 | P a g e Check Service Status After installing the package check the abrtd service status, run the command; systemctl status abrtd Start Service Next step is to start the service to start, run the command; systemctl start abrtd && systemctl status abrtd -l
- 4. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI 3 | P a g e ABRT Default Configuration ABRT Configuration file “/etc/abrt/abrt.conf”, with default setting can be retrieved with the below command; egrep -v '^#|^$|^;' /etc/abrt/abrt.conf Attribute Default MaxCrashReportsSize 1000 MB DumpLocation /var/spool/abrt DeleteUploaded no AutoreportingEvent report_uReport AutoreportingEnabled no PrivateReports yes Enable Auto Reporting Next, step is the enable auto reporting, run the command; abrt-auto-reporting enabled
- 5. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI 4 | P a g e Configure SELinux – ABRT Only when the default “DumpLocation” in the configuration is changed, SELinux has to be configured. In case you change the “DumpLocation” is changed, SELinux has to be reconfigured to enable write. Default directory is “/var/spool/abrt”; and by default its comment in the configuration file. egrep -i -B2 "#DumpLocation" /etc/abrt/abrt.conf Listing Dump Files To list the dump files generated, in the default folder, run the command; ls -la /var/spool/abrt Note: Files in this directory will generated automatically when a dump is created.
- 6. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI 5 | P a g e View SELinux Setting To view the current SELinux configured for “abrt” run the command below; getsebool -a | grep abrt Modify SELinux Setting To modify SELinux attribute for “abrt”, run the command below; setsebool -P abrt_anon_write 1 && getsebool -a | grep abrt ABRT CLI Commands List of abrt-cli commands are listed in the below table with its purpose. Argument Purpose list Lists problems and views the problem data. report Analyzes and reports problems. rm Removes unneeded problems. info Provides information about a particular problem. status Short info about issues (count), if any.
- 7. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI 6 | P a g e ABRT Issue – Listing To lists problems, run the command; abrt-cli list
- 8. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI 7 | P a g e ABRT Issue – Detailed Listing To retrieve detailed information about the aborted issue(s), run the command; abrt-cli list -vn –detailed ABRT Issue – Reporting To retrieve detailed information about the aborted issue(s), run the command; abrt-cli report /var/spool/abrt/oops-2016-04-29-00:05:02-1148-0
- 9. How to Install and Use ABRT CLI 8 | P a g e ABRT Issue – Info To retrieve issue info, run the command; abrt-cli info /var/spool/abrt/oops-2016-04-29-00:05:02-1148-0 ABRT Issue – Status To retrieve issues short info, run the command; abrt-cli status ABRT Issue – Remove To remove a specific issue, run the command; abrt-cli remove /var/spool/abrt/oops-2016-04-29-00:05:02-1148-0 Note: Once you remove the dump file and directory is deleted automatically. ABRT Issue – Process To process issue(s), run the command; abrt-cli process Note: you can remove, report, get information or skip for each issue created and stored.