problems with strace

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Jun 23 14:25:58 UTC 2006


In the last episode (Jun 23), Joe Auty said:
> On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:23 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >In the last episode (Jun 23), Joe Auty said:
> >>No matter what command I run with strace, I have the same problem:
> >>
> >># strace ls
> >>strace: open("/proc/...", ...): No such file or directory
> >>trouble opening proc file
> >>
> >>Any ideas why this is?
> >
> >Is /proc mounted?
> 
> That was easy, no is wasn't =)
> 
> I take it proc is optional in FreeBSD?

Yes.  There aren't many tools that still need it, but truss is one of
them.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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