Re: [Fetchmail-users] how do i use: strace -ffe %desc -s 4096 -o st fetchmail

[mario c. <ml...@ma...>]

On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 10:27 +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi mario,
> 
> > vmail user > strace -ffe %desc -s 4096 -o st fetchmail
> > strace: Can't fopen 'st.15088': Permission denied
> 
> ‘-o st’ puts strace's output into a file called st.  It appears you
> don't have write permission on the current directory so specify
> somewhere where the file can be created, e.g. /tmp/st.
> 

OK, sorry, i shuold have known.
I get a st.* file indeed. Since I was trying to trace the reason for a 517
error, the only line that may help seems to be: 

write(4, "\26\3\1\2\0\1\0\1\374\3\3 ...snip...
0\24pop3.mariochiari.net\0\v\0\4\3   ...snip... 0\0\0\0\0", 517) = 517

Does it help? 
m.