How To Install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch is Default yama attach scope sysctl setting

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch

Yama sysctl setting to enable default attach scope settings enabling programs to use ptrace attach, access to /proc/PID/{mem,personality,stack,syscall}, and the syscalls process_vm_readv and process_vm_writev which are used for interprocess services, communication and introspection (like synchronisation, signaling, debugging, tracing and profiling) of processes.

We can use yum to install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch.

Install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch

How To Uninstall elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch

elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/sysctl.d/10-default-yama-scope.conf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.