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BTRACEBACK(1)	   Network backup, recovery and verification	 BTRACEBACK(1)

NAME
	btraceback - wrapper script around gdb and bsmtp

SYNOPSIS
       btraceback /path/to/binary pid

DESCRIPTION
       btraceback is a wrapper shell script around the gdb debugger (or dbx on
       Solaris systems) and bsmtp, provided for debugging purposes.

USAGE
       btraceback is called by the exception handlers of  the  Bacula  daemons
       during  a  crash.  It can also be called interactively to view the cur‐
       rent state of the threads belonging to a process, but this is not  rec‐
       ommended unless you are trying to debug a problem (see below).

NOTES
       In  order  to work properly, debugging symbols must be available to the
       debugger on the system, and gdb, or dbx (on Solaris  systems)  must  be
       available in the $PATH.

       If  the	Director or Storage daemon runs under a non-root uid, you will
       probably need to be modify the btraceback script to elevate  privileges
       for  the	 call  to  gdb/dbx, to ensure it has the proper permissions to
       debug when called by the daemon.

       Although Bacula's use of btraceback within its  exception  handlers  is
       always  safe, manual or interactive use of btraceback is subject to the
       same risks than live debugging of any program,  which  means  it	 could
       cause  Bacula  to  crash under rare and abnormal circumstances.	Conse‐
       quently we do not recommend manual  use	of  btraceback	in  production
       environments unless it is required for debugging a problem.

ENVIRONMENT
       btracback relies on $PATH to find the debugger.

FILES
       /usr/lib/bacula/btraceback
	      The script itself.

       /usr/sbin/btraceback
	      symbolic link to /usr/lib/bacula/btraceback

       /etc/bacula/scripts/btraceback.gdb
	      the GDB command batch used to output a stack trace

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Lucas B. Cohen <lbc@members.fsf.org>

SEE ALSO
       bsmtp(1)

Kern Sibbald			6 December 2009			 BTRACEBACK(1)
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