👩💻 Join our community of thousands of amazing developers!
Today I want to cover one of the best troubleshooting tools in any sysadmins arsenal; strace. Strace is a command that will trace the system calls and signals from a specified command. What does that mean in layman's terms? Strace will output all of the inner workings of a process you run it against. If a process opens a file or binds a port, strace will print that action; it is a great utility for troubleshooting when a process is not behaving as expected and you can't find any reason in the co...