Modifying the format name of dump file in a Linux system can be made with sysctl like this.
sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=core.%e.%p
However, making this modification command-based will not make it effective at next reboot.
In order to make the modification permanent, you need to edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf. Here the core file has the executable name %e and the process ID %p.
kernel.core_pattern = core.%e.%p
Here is a list of the possible keywords usable:
- %p, PID of dumped process
- %u, (numeric) real UID of dumped process
- %g, (numeric) real GID of dumped process
- %s, number of signal causing dump
- %t time of dump, expressed as seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)
- %h, hostname (same as nodename returned by uname(2))
- %e, executable filename (without path prefix)
- %c, core file size soft resource limit of crashing process (since Linux 2.6.24)
