Alarming on coredumps on Linux?

[Tim Pushor]

Hello everyone,

While not specifically a nagios issue, I am setting up a nagios 
installation to monitor a server that is used to run an interactive 
application by several users at once (> 50). The problem is, 
occasionally the application dumps core, and the users don't always 
notify us when this happens. We'd like to trigger a passive alarm to 
nagios on our application dumping core.

On other OS's (specifically FreeBSD IIRC) the kernel logs coredumps and 
end up in the system log so watching the logfiles with swatch or 
something similar would do the trick.

On my Linux system (CentOS 5.2) it appears that coredumps don't log. 
Does anyone have any ideas how I can trigger an event on coredump on Linux?

Thanks,
Tim

(Just for clarification - I am not looking for a plugin - I am looking 
for a method to detect coredumps on Linux so I can write a plugin or 
preferably a swatch configuration)


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