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

SEE ALSO

     crashdump(8)

Darwin                         September 7, 2004                        Darwin