At 04:32 PM 2/16/2004, Thomas L Roche you wrote: >On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: >>> Is there a way to limit the [strace] file size directly, or to >>> script its rotation? > >Igor Pechtchanski 02/16/2004 03:56:10 PM: >> You're on Cygwin, man! Use the scripting tools! :-) > >The will is there! It's the howto I need :-( > >> Don't forget that strace by default sends the trace to stdout. You >> can then pipe it to any program you wish (e.g., "tail -100", or > >That part I understand, and I know how to use those tools to *report >from* strace.out ... but that's not what I'm trying to do. I don't >want to say, "give me the last million lines from strace.out"--windows >being what it is, if the file's big enough I may not get a chance to >ask! > >I want instead to say something like, "don't let strace.out get bigger >than a million lines," or 1GB, or something like that. How to do >_that_, script wizards?
I don't think Igor was proposing anything too involved or complicated. In your case, it sounds to me like you could just pipe the output of strace into grep looking for a keyword or two specific to the error message and the strace message that Chris embellished for you. That should add up to very few lines overall. No? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
