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authorDaniel Novotny <dnovotny@dhcp-lab-180.englab.brq.redhat.com>2009-07-03 12:58:16 +0200
committerDaniel Novotny <dnovotny@dhcp-lab-180.englab.brq.redhat.com>2009-07-03 12:58:16 +0200
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-rw-r--r--src/Daemon/abrt.820
-rw-r--r--src/Daemon/abrt.conf.545
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/src/Daemon/abrt.8 b/src/Daemon/abrt.8
index 1317a89..f3ae127 100644
--- a/src/Daemon/abrt.8
+++ b/src/Daemon/abrt.8
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ abrt \- an automated bug-reporting tool
.B abrt [ -d ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I abrt
-is a daemon which watches for application crashes. When a crash occurs,
+is a daemon that watches for application crashes. When a crash occurs,
it collects the crash data (core file, application's command line etc.)
-and performs some actions according to the type of application that
-crashed and according to configuration in the
+and takes action according to the type of application that
+crashed and according to the configuration in the
.I abrt.conf
-config file. There are plugins for various actions: for example reporting
-the crash to Bugzilla, mailing the report, transfering the
+config file. There are plugins for various actions: for example to report
+the crash to Bugzilla, to mail the report, or to transfer the
report via FTP or SCP. See the manual pages for the
respective plugins.
.SH OPTIONS
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ respective plugins.
This option causes
.I abrt
-to print some more debugging information, when the daemon is started.
+to print more debugging information when the daemon is started.
.SH CAVEATS
-When you use some other crash catching tool, specific for an aplication
+When you use some other crash-catching tool, specific for an application
or an application type (for example BugBuddy for GNOME applications),
-the crashes of this type will be handled by this application and
-not \fIabrt\fP. If you don't want this behavior, turn the higher-level crash
-catching application off: the crashes will be handled by \fIabrt\fP then.
+crashes of this type will be handled by that tool and
+not by \fIabrt\fP. If you want \fIabrt\fP to handle these crashes,
+turn off the higher-level crash-catching tool.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR abrt.conf (5),
.IR abrt-plugins (7)
diff --git a/src/Daemon/abrt.conf.5 b/src/Daemon/abrt.conf.5
index 481b4f5..edccb59 100644
--- a/src/Daemon/abrt.conf.5
+++ b/src/Daemon/abrt.conf.5
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ abrt.conf \- configuration file for abrt
.SH DESCRIPTION
.P
.I abrt
-is a daemon which watches for application crashes. When a crash occurs,
-it collects the crash data and performs some actions according to
-the configuration. This manual page describes \fIabrt\fP's configuration
+is a daemon that watches for application crashes. When a crash occurs,
+it collects the crash data and takes action according to
+its configuration. This manual page describes \fIabrt\fP's configuration
file.
.P
The configuration file consists of sections, each section contains
-several items in a format "Option = Value". The description of each
+several items in the format "Option = Value". A description of each
section follows:
.SS [Common]
.TP
@@ -21,49 +21,52 @@ will report crashes only in GPG signed packages. When set to "no",
it will report crashes also in unsigned packages.
.TP
.B OpenGPGPublicKeys = \fIfilename\fP , \fIfilename\fP ...
-This is the place, where you specify the trusted GPG keys, with
-which the packages have to be signed for "EnableOpenGPG = yes".
+These are the trusted GPG keys with which packages have to be
+signed for
+.I abrt
+to report them if "EnableOpenGPG = yes".
.TP
.B BlackList = \fIpackageName\fP, \fIpackageName\fP ...
-Packages in this list will be ignored (i.e. their crashes will
-not be handled by
.I abrt
-).
+will ignore packages in this list and will not handle their crashes.
.TP
.B EnabledPlugins = \fIplugin\fP, \fIplugin\fP ...
-Only plugins in EnabledPlugins are loaded.
+.I abrt
+will only load plugins in this list.
.TP
.B Database = \fIdatabasePlugin\fP
-This specifies which database plugin is used to store
-the metadata about the crash.
+This specifies which database plugin
+.I abrt
+uses to store metadata about the crash.
.TP
.B MaxCrashReportsSize = \fInumber\fP
-You can specify here, how much disk space will maximally be
-used for all the crash dumps, to ensure
-that the crash dumps won't take
-all the HDD space. The number is specified in megabytes.
+The maximum disk space (specified in megabytes) that
+.I abrt
+will use for all the crash dumps. Specify a value here to ensure
+that the crash dumps will not fill all available storage space.
.TP
.B ActionsAndReporters = \fIplugin\fP, \fIplugin(parameters)\fP
-List of reporter and action plugins, which will be
+List of reporter and action plugins which will be
run at crash time.
.SS [ AnalyzerActionsAndReporters ]
This section contains associations between analyzers and action
or reporter plugins.
.TP
.B CCpp = \fIplugin\fP
-This plugin will be used when a C/C++ program crashes.
+.I abrt
+will use this plugin when a C/C++ program crashes.
You can specify a plugin for specific program, for example
.br
CCpp:bind = Mailx("[abrt] Bind crashed")
.br
-The Mailx plugin will run, when bind crashes, instead of the plugin specified for
+The Mailx plugin will run when bind crashes, instead of the plugin specified for
all the C/C++ programs.
.TP
.B Kerneloops = \fIplugin\fP
This plugin will be used in the case of kernel crashes.
.SS [ Cron ]
-This section specifies tasks, which will be run at some time. You can specify
-either a time of the day in the format
+This section specifies tasks that will be run at some specified time. You can specify
+either a time of day in the format
.br
.B hh:mm = \fIplugin\fP
.br