[SUMMARY] Tracing System Calls

From: Jeffrey G. Micono 6533 \(Ktech\) <"Jeffrey>
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 10:30:49 -0600

Thanks go to
  "John P . Speno" <speno_at_isc.upenn.edu>
  bchill_at_bch.net (Brian C Hill)
  "Zitz, Stephan" <Stephan_Zitz_at_tds.com>
  jmh_at_zk3.dec.com (Jan Mark Holzer, UEG)
  Bob Jones <BJ_at_OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
  "Kevin Oberman" <oberman_at_es.net>
  "LBRO"<lbro_at_dscc.dk>
  Richard Bemrose <rb237_at_phy.cam.ac.uk>
  Vipul Patel <vsp_at_unx.dec.com>
  smcgly - Sean McGlynn <SMCGLY_at_acxiom.co.uk>
  Peter Stern <peter_at_wiscpa.weizmann.ac.il>
  Tom Woodburn <woodburn_at_zk3.dec.com>

Many people suggested alpha-trace, available freely from a
number of locations. I got one from

ftp://ftp.iastate.edu/pub/unix/osf1/trace/alpha-trace-1.33.tar.Z

Brian asked the same question earlier. (I did search the
archives, honest!) Here's his detailed summary:
>
> 1. A SVR4 package that comes on the associated products CD, contains
> sar, fuser, truss, timex, fmli, svr4-printspooler etc.
> The packages are:
> SVEADM410 installed System Management Package (System V Environment)
> SVEBCP410 installed Base Compatibility Package (System V Environmen)
> SVEDEV410 installed Development Tools Package (System V Environment)
> SVEENV410 installed Environment Setup files (System V Environment)
> SVEMAN410 installed Man Pages Package (System V Environment)
> SVEPRINT410 Print Package (System V Environment)
>
> 2. A number of people recommended trace 1.25. The source for
> this is readily available from ftp sites.
> (http://www.digital.com/misc/pub-domain-osf1.txt.html.)
> This may also be called alpha-trace.
>
> 3. strace (apparently not the streams trace package I have on my
> system) is available from ftp sites (strace-3.1.0.1-du.tgz)
>
> 4. Lars Bro has written one as an exercise. Contact him if you
> would like to discuss it.
>
> 5. sctrace was suggested, as being installed as part of the base
> UNIX, but it is not on my system.

Kevin said truss is the SYS V thing to do the same thing. You can either
pay for the SYS V DU stuff, or get free strace from

ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/ahobson/strace-3.1.0.1-du.tgz

Tom said he uses the audit subsystem to trace syscalls.

Jeff
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