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
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