46.2.3.4. Changing the Default Action

By default, when kdump fails to create a core dump, the root file system is mounted and /sbin/init is run. To change this behavior, open the /etc/kdump.conf configuration file as root, remove the hash sign (“#”) from the beginning of the #default shell line, and replace the value with a desired action as described in Table 46.2, “Supported actions”. For example:

default halt