Can I safely disable abrtd on CentOS 6?

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You don't have to run abrtd, no. As per man abrtd:

abrtd is a daemon that watches for application crashes. When a crash occurs, it collects the problem data (core file, application’s command line etc.) and takes action according to the type of application that crashed and according to the configuration in the abrt.conf config file.

The default is probably to try reporting it to Redhat (via HTTPS, I think, not email). If you don't care about that at all, then there's no point in using it. The daemon consumes almost no resources in any case.

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Nils

I studied information science and did computers from the old Commodore VC-20 onwards. I started during study as pc-admin for DOS, Windows, WfW and all related software and hardware stuff. Later I switched over to servers, starting with linux-samba and NT 3.5/4.0. My first job made me a Solaris admin in a huge company with over 500 solaris servers. There I got every day a new interesting problem that I have never encountered before. My next job brought me into project management and later back to system administration - mainly Linux. It was frustrating to manage a project when you knew that doing the admin`s job yourselv would have the current step finished in less than 30 minutes...

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Nils over 1 year

There is this nice new daemon called abrtd running on CentOS6.

This was inherited from upstream RHEL6. There this can be used (for instance) to automatically generate service-requests.

In an environment where we have logwatch and full monitoring of our servers active - is there any benefit in having this daemon up and running?
- Admin over 10 years
  
  Related: What is abrt and the process abrt-action-generate-core-backtrace?
slm over 10 years

Yes it makes HTTP(S) calls with failures. Fedora & CentOS both use this facility and it can be disabled.