A collegue told me once that the last option when everything has failed to debug on linux was to use strace.

I tried to learn the science there is behind this strange tool but I am not a system admin guru and I Don't really get results.

So what is it exactly and what does it do ?

How to use it ? In which case ?

How to understand the output and process it ?

In brief, how does this stuff work  ? In simple words.

A colleague once told me that the last option when everything has failed to debug on Linux was to use strace.

I tried to learn the science behind this strange tool, but I am not a system admin guru and I didn’t really get results.

So,

• What is it exactly and what does it do?
• How and in which cases should it be used?
• How should the output be understood and processed?

In brief, in simple words, how does this stuff work?

A collegue told me once that the last option when everything has failed to debug on linux was to use strace.

I tried to train learn the science there is behind this strange tool but I am not a system admin guru and I Don't really get results.

So what is it exactly and what does it do ?

How to use it ? In which case ?

How to understand the output and process it ?

In brief, how does this stuff work ? In simple words.

A collegue told me once that the last option when everything has failed to debug on linux was to use strace.

I tried to learn the science there is behind this strange tool but I am not a system admin guru and I Don't really get results.

So what is it exactly and what does it do ?

How to use it ? In which case ?

How to understand the output and process it ?

In brief, how does this stuff work ? In simple words.