Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:06:35 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Thomas L Roche cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: limiting strace? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > >> Is there a way to limit the [strace] file size directly, or to > >> script its rotation? > > Igor Pechtchanski 02/16/2004 03:56:10 PM: > > You're on Cygwin, man! Use the scripting tools! :-) > > The will is there! It's the howto I need :-( > > > Don't forget that strace by default sends the trace to stdout. You > > can then pipe it to any program you wish (e.g., "tail -100", or > > That part I understand, and I know how to use those tools to *report > from* strace.out ... but that's not what I'm trying to do. I don't > want to say, "give me the last million lines from strace.out"--windows > being what it is, if the file's big enough I may not get a chance to > ask! Simple: don't output the trace to a file. The "by default" up there means that if you don't supply the "-o" option, strace will send the trace to stdout. > I want instead to say something like, "don't let strace.out get bigger > than a million lines," or 1GB, or something like that. How to do > _that_, script wizards? Umm, how about something like the line below? strace unzip whatever | tail -1000000 > strace.out 2>&1 & No wizardry involved here. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/