Also check out ltrace... Shows the calls to other libraries the process is making... I'd also like to point out that a key to using strace successfully is the

Also check out ltrace... Shows the calls to other libraries the process is making... I'd also like to point out that a key to using strace successfully is the result column... Programs that fail often make system calls that fail right before they exit... You can often tell what the program is trying and failing to accomplish...