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Date:      Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:53:59 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
To:        Paidhi <paidhi@mospheira.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
Subject:   Re: How to read core dump
Message-ID:  <20030119125359.GA1923@fishballoon.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200301191055.22330.paidhi@mospheira.net>
References:  <20030119013133.GA5520@polands.org> <200301191055.22330.paidhi@mospheira.net>

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:55:22AM +0100, Paidhi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Under Linux there can be used strace to follow the programs system calls. 
> There is also an strace (and ltrace) in the ports collection.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/devel/strace/pkg-descr
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/ltrace/pkg-descr
> 
> Maybe this can help you analyzing the problem.

There's also /usr/bin/ktrace which does the same job as strace or truss but
won't require installing any ports.  ltrace says it traces library calls
rather than system calls, so that could be useful as well.

	Scott

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