Re: How to trace system level call in AIX

[Pete Finnigan <pete () peterfinnigan demon co uk>]

Sorry c%ck up with the url, please look at this one instead
http://www.pgibbs.demon.co.uk/useful_code.htm
this time i checked it properly
cheers
Pete Finnigan
www.pentest-limited.com

In article <+GKeX2AdihI8EwfG () peterfinnigan demon co uk>, Pete Finnigan
<pete () peterfinnigan demon co uk> writes
> Hi
>
> Please have a look at http://www.pgibbs.co.uk/useful_code/libtrace.htm.
> This is a friend of mines private home page, he has a lot of useful C
> programs one being libtrace that tracks calls on AIX, he wrote it
> himself in his spare time and its worth a look.
>
> regards
> Pete Finnigan
> www.pentest-limited.com
>
> In article <75C025AE395F374B81F6416B1D4BDEFB0FAF5E@MTV-CORPMAIL>,
> Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik () microfocus com> writes
> > 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

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