I recall a little while ago there was a discussion on one of the netbsd
lists about a command that behaved like the System V truss, rather than
netbsd's ktrace (ie, wrote text representation of system calls to stdout
by default).

At the time I let it go past because I thought that ktrace would do
everything I would want, but now I find that something more like truss
might be useful (I'm trying to track down why XFree86 3.3.2 causes a
Pentium II to reboot when the X server starts up and I thought that a
truss-like command might be less likely to lose buffered information when
the system fell over).

So, did anyone write such a command or was it simply an idea floating
around?  If it does exist, is it in netbsd-current, or in the pkgsrc?  I
did have a search of the email archives for the last couple of months, and
looked for likely named commands under src/{usr.bin,usr.sbin} but
didn't see anything.

Thanks.

Duncan

PS: I'll probably mail something about the real problem I'm trying to solve
if/when I get more details.  But does anyone know off-hand why XFree86
3.3.2 might reboot a Pentium II running a 1.3 or current kernel after going
into graphics mode but before displaying the X cursor (no visible panic -
but that might just be because I'm in graphics mode, and no coredump).  The
same server binary runs fine on a Pentium running 1.3 with identical
graphics card (Matrox Millenium II).