Force a process to coredump

Ensure “gdb” is installed.

Example to force running "crond" process to coredump.

[root@centos ~]# gcore $(pidof crond) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". 0x00007f8c0f444ee0 in __nanosleep_nocancel () from /lib64/libc.so.6 warning: target file /proc/7011/cmdline contained unexpected null characters Saved corefile core.7011 [root@centos ~]# ls core.7011 [root@centos ~]# file core.7011  core.7011: ELF 64-bit LSB core file x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from '/usr/sbin/crond'