kdump Additional Configuration Settings

[nicolas-tallet]

The enablekdump standard xCAT Postscript overwrites the /etc/kdump.conf configuration file:

    246                echo "nfs $KDIP:$KDPATH" > /etc/kdump.conf
    247                echo "default shell" >> /etc/kdump.conf
    248                #strip "xcat" out of the initramfs for kdump
    249                echo "dracut_args --omit \"xcat\"" >> /etc/kdump.conf

This is a bit annoying as this prevents to include additional configuration settings that would be required in a given environment.

In our case, we simply want to integrate the following parameter:

core_collector makedumpfile -l --message-level 1 -d 31

We therefore have:

• Created a /etc/kdump.conf syncfile that just contains the above setting.
• Changed the enablekdump Postscript to append its own content to the configuration file instead of overwriting it entirely.

Is there any smarter way to do so, or is it the best option we have?