Re: How to trace system level call in AIX

[Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik () microfocus com>]

There's a third-party product for AIX 4 (and 3) which is similar to truss:
sctrace, from SevOne Software.  It's quite good, but you do have to pay for
it.

AIX's trace facility is actually quite powerful (you can do some interesting
things if you dig into its innards and rewrite the template file), but it's
not nearly as convenient for quick tracing of a single process as
truss/ltrace/sctrace.

Michael Wojcik                402 438-7842
Software Systems Developer    Micro Focus


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:13 PM
> To: Minchu Mo
> Cc: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: How to trace system level call in AIX 
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:36:12 GMT, Minchu Mo 
> <morris_minchu () iwon com>  said:
> > Somthing like truss in solaris, ltrace in linux. Anybody
> > know the command used to trace system call in AIX?
>
> AIX 5.1 has 'truss'.
>
> AIX 4.3.3 and earlier you can use the 'trace' command - but 
> it's a pain
> because it's a system-level trace from which you can then extract the
> information for the process you cared about.
>
> -- 
>                               Valdis Kletnieks
>                               Operating Systems Analyst
>                               Virginia Tech