10.4: Change or remove the Crash Reporter dialog box

Not much of a hint, but if you have the Apple Developer tools installed in Tiger (included on your installation DVD), a new application for 10.4 is CrashReporterPrefs, located in /Developer -> Applications -> Utilities.

When you run this application, it presents you with a dialog box for three different types of crash reporting:

Basic -- Basic mode is the default setting for Mac OS X 10.4 Client. The CrashReporter dialog box is displayed whenever an application unexpectedly quits.
Developer -- Developer mode provides additional debugging information in the "Unexpectedly Quit" dialog. The dialog is displayed for crashes of system processes and background applications as well as for standard applications.
Server -- Server mode is the default setting on Mac OS X 10.4 Server. Enabling this mode on Client allows for unattended operation while the user is logged in. It will disable the CrashReporter dialog box and write to ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter and/or /Library/Logs/CrashReporter. This mode is highly useful for those of us that run many beta softwares that crash frequently or those that rarely submit crash reports.

I enabled the Server mode on 10.4, and I haven't seen a CrashReporter dialog box in days! I verified the logging, though, and all crash-related information is written to these locations as described.

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10.4: Change or remove the Crash Reporter dialog box
Authored by: Tétonne on Mon, Jul 25 2005 at 11:37AM PDT

How to do this if I don't want to install Developper's Tools?

10.4: Change or remove the Crash Reporter dialog box
Authored by: chancer on Wed, Aug 31 2005 at 11:14AM PDT

The newest version of Onyx will do it. Titanium Software

How to change.
Authored by: jms1 on Wed, Aug 31 2005 at 2:18PM PDT

To view the current setting from a command line...

$ defaults read com.apple.CrashReporter
{DialogType = basic; }

To change the setting, use one of these three commands...

$ defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType basic
$ defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType developer
$ defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType server

You can also use the Property List Editor tool (found in /Developer/Applications/Utilities) to edit the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist. Again, change the key to one of the values noted above (basic, developer, or server.)

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