Newbie Q: Attempted 'strace' yields 'Permission Denied'

From: MeBeNewbie (x_at_y.z.com)
Date: 07/29/05


Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:56:15 -0500


Greetings and Hallucinations,

   I am trying to learn how the OS fires up tools, apps, and
other goodies for my own training purposes. I want to find
out what happens, exactly, when a terminal is launched. I
tried to execute an strace on a terminal but it barfs up
an error.

[root]# strace gnome-terminal
strace: exec: Permission denied
execve("/usr/share/gnome-terminal", ["gnome-terminal"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
[root]#

Any clues for the clueless? ;)

Gratitude w/o Attitude,
-MeBeNewbie



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