From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 19 4:52: 8 2003 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 EB8D637B405 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:52:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAACE43F18 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott.mitchell@mail.com) Received: from fishballoon.dyndns.org ([80.4.125.54]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20030119125156.EHJ14589.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@fishballoon.dyndns.org>; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:51:56 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara [192.168.1.6]) by fishballoon.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0JCsBbO077719; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:54:11 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0JCrx95002168; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:53:59 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:53:59 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Paidhi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Poland Subject: Re: How to read core dump Message-ID: <20030119125359.GA1923@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <20030119013133.GA5520@polands.org> <200301191055.22330.paidhi@mospheira.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301191055.22330.paidhi@mospheira.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message