REPORTER\-UPLOAD

Section: LIBREPORT MANUAL (1)
Updated: 06/28/2012
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NAME

reporter-upload - Uploads compressed tarball of problem directory.

SYNOPSIS

reporter-upload [-c CONFFILE]... [ -d DIR ] [ -u URL ]

DESCRIPTION

The tool is used to create a compressed tarball of the problem directory and upload it to a URL. Supported protocols include FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP and FILE.

Configuration file

Configuration file contains entries in a format "Option = Value".

The options are:

URL

: The URL where tarball should be uploaded.

Integration with ABRT events

reporter-upload can be used as a reporter, to allow users to upload compressed tarballs of dump directiories to a configured URL. This usage can be configured in /etc/libreport/report_event.conf:

EVENT=report_Upload reporter-upload

It can be also used on the post-create event to upload it automatically.

EVENT=post-create reporter-upload

OPTIONS

-d DIR

: Path to problem directory.

-c CONFFILE

: Path to configration file. When used in ABRT event system, the file contains site-wide configuration. Users can change the values via environment variables.

-u URL

: The URL where tarball should be uploaded. URL should have form protocol://[user[:pass]@]host/dir/[file.tar.gz] where protocol can be http(s), ftp, scp, or file. File protocol cancqt have user and host parts: m[blue]file.tar.gzm[][1]. If URL ends with a slash, the archive name will be generated and appended to URL; otherwise, URL will be used as full file name.