[csw-users] Odd problem installing pkg-get

[Chris Ridd]

On 1/3/06 12:24, Dan Stromberg <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:42 +0000, Chris Ridd wrote:
>> On 28/2/06 3:10, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2/28/06, Chris Ridd <chris.ridd at isode.com> wrote:
>>>> This is all very odd. Have you tried using truss to get more details on
>>>> what's actually happening?
>>> 
>>> forget truss .. please .. don't even go there .. its a waste of time
>> 
>> OK :-)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Chris
> 
> I've found system call tracers very effective in pinpointing the source
> of many, many, many problems:
> 
> http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/debugging-with-syscall-tracers.html
> 

I love ktrace/strace/truss/tusc, but I think what Dennis is saying is that
they're a bit of overkill when diagnosing problems in a shell script. Maybe
running pkg-get with sh's -x (or is it +x) flag would be more useful.

Cheers,

Chris