[KLUG Members] A very nice article on "strace"

[Bruce Smith]

>One of my favorite tools in UNIX/LINUX land is "strace".  But it rarely
>gets mentioned,  this tool will tell who what a program is really
>doing...
>http://www.redhat.com/magazine/010aug05/features/strace/
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Nice!  (maybe you can do a presentation on it sometime :)

The strace command is REALLY useful.  Last week I used it to figure out why
Apache2 doesn't start on some older hardware.  (problem with /dev/random)
In this case, "strace" was more useful than google.

 - BS