What’s whoopsie?

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What’s whoopsie ?

       It’s the “Ubuntu Error Reporting” daemon, and is installed by default in both desktop/server installations.

       When something crashes, whoopsie does two things:

               Collects the crash report generated by Apport and

               Can send them to Ubuntu/Canonical (specifically to https://daisy.ubuntu.com 🙂

How do I disable it on a server or via the command-line?

       Just change the “report_crashes” parameter to “false” in the /etc/default/whoopsie file.

       Then bid farewell to whoopsie with sudo service whoopsie stop.