On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:56 +0800, Kevin Laurie wrote:
Hey Joseph Thanks. Strace seems like a very useful tool Only problem is that I dont think it is maintained on ubuntu. Tried to run:- apt-get install strace but could not download it. Might need to download and build it. Do you know any other way of getting it? Thanks Kevin A.
try apt-cache search strace
On Jessie (I'm not running Ubuntu) I get:
devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier dnstracer - trace DNS queries to the source ioapps - IO profiler and IO traces replayer netsniff-ng - Linux network packet sniffer toolkit python-ptrace - Python bindings for ptrace strace - System call tracer subversion-tools - Assorted tools related to Apache Subversion xtrace - trace communication between X client and server
You should be able to find the appropriate package to install to get strace.
-Thom