From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 22:38:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D4016A422 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:38:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA39643D45 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:37:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1OMb7Z3062346 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:37:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <43FF8A85.5040605@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:36:53 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060224163317.E305.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20060224163317.E305.GERARD@seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Tracing Program X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:38:01 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: >I have a program. DADA Mail, which is unfortunately not available in the >ports system. One of the modules supports a discussion list. It is >designed to POP a message from the mailbox and send it. Unfortunately, >it is failing to delete the message from the mailbox after sending it. > >I need a program that I can run in conjunction with this program that >can produce a log of everything that is happening when the module is >running so I can send it to the developer of DADA. Perhaps someone could >suggest something that would accomplish that. I am not talking a 'script' >which only records output to the screen. I need one that will record >exactly what the program is actually doing; i.e, system calls, etc. > >Thanks! > > > ktrace(1) kdump(1) might help. KDK -- Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy -- and that is life. -- Jean Anouilh, Ardele