Changing Coredump name

[hqduong]

Can someone please tell me how do I change it so Ubuntu dumps a core file with its name, PID, and a timestamp?

I looked into the apport python script, but this is a language I haven't really picked up yet.

[mshamma]

Any luck solving the problem?

[MadCow108]

to just set the pid appending you can change
/proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid
to 1

more complicated patterns are saved in:
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

pattern:
%p: pid
%<NUL>: '%' is dropped
%%: output one '%'
%u: uid
%g: gid
%s: signal number
%t: UNIX time of dump
%h: hostname
%e: executable filename
%<OTHER>: both are dropped

http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/coredump.htm