From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752800AbXCLTnL (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:43:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752810AbXCLTnL (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:43:11 -0400 Received: from station18k.dscga.com ([192.24.222.18]:49188 "EHLO suzuka.mcnaught.org" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752800AbXCLTnK (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:43:10 -0400 To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29 References: <20070311013506.GD10459@waste.org> <200703121428.29947.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <87wt1mjo4q.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org> <200703121510.18268.gene.heskett@gmail.com> From: Douglas McNaught Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:43:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200703121510.18268.gene.heskett@gmail.com> (Gene Heskett's message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:10:18 -0400") Message-ID: <87slcajliq.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett writes: > On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote: >>Gene Heskett 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 ', 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