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Old 08-06-2008
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 ?

- nilesh
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Old 08-06-2008
If you're not a programmer, there's no big point using gdb.
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Old 08-06-2008
Unless you need to look at core files, maybe.
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Old 08-06-2008
Yep, the most useful information is usually a backtrace to see what function calls a programme was making when it core dumped.

Code:
gdb /usr/bin/somebinary /somedir/core
(gdb) bt

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