NAME

crashreporterd — crash detection and panic logging daemon

SYNOPSIS

crashreporterd

DESCRIPTION

crashreporterd is the daemon responsible for detecting application
crashes. crashreporterd listens for mach exceptions and when it detects
a mach exception launches crashdump to investigate the crash and report
it to the user.

crashreporterd is also responsible for writing panic information to
/Library/Logs/panic.log when the system is rebooted after a panic.

crashreporterd should only be started at boot time by the CrashReporter
startup item - killing or restarting crashreporterd at any other time
will lead to upredictable behavior when an application crashes. Adminis-
trators can edit the CRASHREPORTER entry in /etc/hostconfig to prevent
crashreporterd from starting at boot time.

FILES

/usr/libexec/crashreporterd daemon
/System/Library/StartupItems/CrashReporter/ startup item
/etc/hostconfig configuration
/Library/Logs/panic.log panic log

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