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Add docs for error file configuration (#29032) 

This commit adds docs for configuring the error file setting for where
the JVM writes fatal error logs.
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[[error-file-path]]
=== JVM fatal error logs
The <<rpm,RPM>> and <<deb,Debian>> package distributions default to configuring
the JVM to write fatal error logs to `/var/lib/elasticsearch`; these are logs
produced by the JVM when it encounters a fatal error (e.g., a segmentation
fault). If this path is not suitable for receiving logs, you should modify the
entry `-XX:ErrorFile=/var/lib/elasticsearch/hs_err_pid%p.log` in
<<jvm-options,`jvm.options`>> to an alternate path.
Note that the archive distributions do not configure the error file path by
default. Instead, the JVM will default to writing to the working directory for
the Elasticsearch process. If you wish to configure an error file path, you
should modify the entry `#-XX:ErrorFile=/error/file/path` in
<<jvm-options,`jvm.options`>> to remove the comment marker `#` and to specify an
actual path.