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To: Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.ping.de>
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Subject: Stracing Amanda (was: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29)
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From: Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
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Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.ping.de> writes:

> Why not temporarly replace "/bin/tar" with a shell script that does:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec strace -f -o output /bin/real.tar $@

You beat me to it.  :) I've done that before; it's a great suggestion.

Except that if you expect 'tar' to be invoked multiple times in a run,
you should probably use 'output.$$' for the output filename so things
don't get clobbered.

-Doug