[CentOS] Commands failing silently?

[Peter l Jakobi]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:18:49PM -0500, Dan Bongert wrote:
>> You can also try running ``strace /bin/ls'' to see what is going on.
> Funnily enough, running strace will work just fine. Though, as I said, just
> about any command will fail -- 'ls' was just for testing purposes.

That's  funny. Or due to the output of strace changing timing & stress.

Try  redirecting the strace output to a separate (local filesystem  or
ramdisk) file, possibly restricted to file operations. Also: check top
- you don't have swap or ram problems?

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