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

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Sun Aug 21 18:25:54 EDT 2005


> >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/
> Nice!  (maybe you can do a presentation on it sometime :)

But I already did -
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/debugging2001.pdf

> 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.
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