Terry R Linhardt (linhardt at swbell.net) said: > Okay...I can be dumb about this. :) > > If I do: strace /sbin/syslogd -m 0 ... > > the strace exits after a second or so, although syslogd continues to > run. Following is what strace captures before it exits. > Does this help?: No, you need to strace the running syslogd with strace -p `pidof syslogd` Bill