Solve Application Problems with Tracing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Mar 2006 15:55 UTC, submitted by anonymous

"Peer into the behavior of an application with truss. When an application doesn't work as expected, you typically look at application and system logs as a first recourse. But when logs don't help, UNIX provides a powerful set of tools that you can use to trace the application while it runs. Armed with these traces and a bit of knowledge about UNIX, you can easily solve your application problems."

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great tool

by SEJeff on Thu 30th Mar 2006 16:42 UTC

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2005-11-05

truss is an excellent tool althought is isn's installed on all Unix flavors by default. The linux equivalent is strace.

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NT had this

by DKR on Thu 30th Mar 2006 16:48 UTC

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2005-08-22

for a while. ms called it "nt application bug tracing for win32 services". apparently it sent a report to microsoft with the associated problem.

when you use a network sniffer, however - you will see that the program does not send a report to microsoft, which is strange.

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danka

by frank on Fri 31st Mar 2006 22:35 UTC

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2005-07-08

Thanks for the article!

There's another one that this article links to on using DTrace. Looks good also.

http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/DTrace/dtracevstruss.html

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