Linux Troubleshooting With strace

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 22, 2010 4:17 PM EDT
LinuxPlanet; By Juliet Kemp
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strace is a useful little utility – installed by default on most Linux systems – which allows you to find out what a program is doing under the hood by tracing the system calls it's making. strace is a great basic debugging tool; but it's also fascinating to use even when you're not tracing a problem. It can teach you a lot about how a Linux program works.

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