Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29

[Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> writes:

> On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote:
>>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I'd considered it, but with 32 dle entries, the whole strace output
>>> would be terrabytes & I don't have THAT much disk.  Not to mention it
>>> traces only the parent process, so tar would be merrily marching along
>>> to its own drummer and not traced I'm  afraid.
>>
>>$ strace -ff
>>
>>-Doug
>
> Someone else suggested the single -f, and I tried that, but even with the 
> shell history set for 100,000 lines, i can't get back to the start, and I 
> think its mucking with the shell arguments numbering as what I can see is 
> about 5 reads through /etc/services accompanied by endless complaints 
> of -EBADFD, the the logfile it generates says the port it was given was 
> rejected when amcheck was run, here is that snip:

I'd do 'strace -ff -o /tmp/amanda-strace <command>', which will give
you a set of files in /tmp, one for each PID created by fork().  Then
find the one that has the 'tar' invocation you're looking for.

-Doug