mayday

...man overboard!

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overview

Mayday is a tool to simplify gathering support information. It is built in the spirit of sysreport, son of sysreport (sosreport), and similar support tools.
Mayday gathers information about the configuration, hardware, and running state of a system.

goals

The goals of mayday are:

• simplify gathering information about a running system into a single command
• collect information into one single file to be transferred to support staff
• when possible the file should be small enough to be sent via email (<10MB)
• not collect sensitive information like crypto keys, password hashes, etc
• extensible through plugin system