Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote: >>Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/