Hello Vinit, Thanks for the reply. I have already tried that. But in a busy server, with approximately 50-100 children created per hour, It will be a very tedious task. Do anyone know any other tools like strace ?. Regards, Shameem --- On Thu, 11/26/09, vinit dhatrak <vinit.dhatrak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: vinit dhatrak <vinit.dhatrak@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: tracing only direct childrens > To: "Shameem Ahamed" <shameem.ahamed@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 7:31 PM > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:56 PM, > Shameem Ahamed > <shameem.ahamed@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I know this is not the correct list to ask this > question. But I am sure somebody from here can help me out. > > > > My problem is, i am trying to trace a currently > running Apache root process for creation of childs using > strace. But strace also lists the details of childs of > childs. I want to restrict my trace only to the direct > childrens. > > > > How can we do it? . > > > > Regards, > > Shameem > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > > > > > I am not aware of any such direct option available for > strace program > but I can suggest you other ways. You can use "-p" option > and give > list which will include pids of root process and its > immediate > children if processes are already started. > > Or you can dump the trace output to the file rather than to > stderr > using "-o filename" option. If you use "-ff" to trace child > processes > rather than just "-f" then you will get trace output as > "filename.pid". Now you can observe each process's trace > separately > per pid. > > Hope this helps. > > -Vinit > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
