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How can administrator can make use of GDB?

Hi, I heard lots of about GDB, was going through some documenation but it all in programmers point of view not admin. So my question is how an admin can make use gnu debugger ?

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If you're not a programmer, there's no big point using gdb.
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Unless you need to look at core files, maybe.
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Yep, the most useful information is usually a backtrace to see what function calls a programme was making when it core dumped.

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gdb /usr/bin/somebinary /somedir/core
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