Tracing Program

[Kevin Kinsey]

Gerard Seibert wrote:

>I have a program. DADA Mail, which is unfortunately not available in the
>ports system. One of the modules supports a discussion list. It is
>designed to POP a message from the mailbox and send it. Unfortunately,
>it is failing to delete the message from the mailbox after sending it.
>
>I need a program that I can run in conjunction with this program that
>can produce a log of everything that is happening when the module is
>running so I can send it to the developer of DADA. Perhaps someone could
>suggest something that would accomplish that. I am not talking a 'script'
>which only records output to the screen. I need one that will record
>exactly what the program is actually doing; i.e, system calls, etc.
>
>Thanks!
>
>  
>

ktrace(1)
kdump(1)

might help.

KDK

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