ABRTD(8)

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version 2.17.9 · 3 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ NAME ✨

abrtd — the automated bug reporting tool's daemon. yes bestie, the actual daemon, the one doing the heavy lifting 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

abrtd [-dsv[v]...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: abrtd is a daemon that literally just watches for application crashes. all day. every day. main character energy but make it surveillance 👑

when a crash happens, it collects the problem data — the core file, the application's command line, etc. — and then it takes action based on two things: the type of application that crashed, and whatever the config in the abrt.conf config file says. no cap.

and there are plugins for all the different actions, bestie. like, reporting the crash to Bugzilla? mail the report? transfer the report via FTP or SCP? all of that. it's giving versatile. see the manual pages for the respective plugins 🫶

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -v — log more detailed debugging information. the more v's the merrier, iykyk 👀
  • -d — stay in the foreground and log to standard error.
  • -s — log to system log even with option -d.
  • -t NUM — exit after NUM seconds of inactivity. bye bestie, nothing's happening anyway 💀
  • -p — add program names to log.

🎀 ENVIRONMENT 🎀

  • ABRT_EVENT_NICE — so abrtd runs its post-mortem processing with the nice value incremented by 10, and the whole reason is so it doesn't take too much resources and keeps the computer responsive. it's being polite, literally. if you wanna adjust that increment value, that's what the ABRT_EVENT_NICE environment variable is for 🌈

💀 CAVEATS 💀

not to be dramatic but listen: when you use some other crash-catching tool that's specific to an application or an application type (like BugBuddy for GNOME applications), crashes of that type will be handled by that tool and not by abrtd. periodt. if you want abrtd to handle these crashes instead, you gotta turn off the higher-level crash-catching tool. no negotiating 🙈

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /etc/abrt/abrt.conf — configuration file for the daemon.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • ABRT team

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this is the abrt 2.17.9 manual, dated 08/03/2026 — go forth and let the daemon do its thing, you absolute icon 🌸✨🎀

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