Andy B 4ndyb

Using strace and lsof to debug blocked processes

You can use strace on a specific pid to figure out what a specific process is doing, e.g.:

strace -fp <pid>

You might see something like:

select(9, [3 5 8], [], [], {0, 999999}) = 0 (Timeout)

	#!/usr/bin/python
	"""
	dnsSquirrel.py: Simple DNS sniffer based on dnssnarf.py which outputs data in bind log
	format for further analysis with more advanced tools

	"""

	from datetime import datetime
	import logging
	from scapy.all import *