Re: [tlug] troubleshooting lockup

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 06/09/06, Jim <jep200404@example.com> wrote:

> scott wrote:
>
> > Strace did give me some error but I was capturing to [stdout]
> > and don't remember it exactly- something about a bad descriptor.
>
> Capture to something more permanent than stdio next time,
> so that you can study it, and so that you can show it to
> others for comments.

A nice tool for just this situation is tee(1).

strace xmms 2>&1 | tee xmms.log

-Josh