linux-kernel - Stracing Amanda (was: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29)

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:32:00 -0400
From:	Douglas McNaught <doug@...aught.org>
To:	Patrick Mau <mau@...ar.ping.de>
Cc:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Stracing Amanda (was: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29)

Patrick Mau <mau@...ar.ping.de> writes:

> Why not temporarly replace "/bin/tar" with a shell script that does:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec strace -f -o output /bin/real.tar $@

You beat me to it.  :) I've done that before; it's a great suggestion.

Except that if you expect 'tar' to be invoked multiple times in a run,
you should probably use 'output.$$' for the output filename so things
don't get clobbered.

-Doug
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