howto pstack running freeradius process

[Doug Hardie]

On 23 July 2009, at 22:09, George Chelidze wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:10 +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
>> George Chelidze wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am investigating one issue with freeradius 2.1.6 custom module and
>>> would like to get a stack trace of running process.
>>
>>  This is a local OS issue.  It has nothing to do with FreeRADIUS.
>
> Hello Alan,
>
> I didn't say it's an issue with freeradius. I said it's an issue  
> with a
> custom module and I am trying to find the reason that's why I asked
> about stack trace.

The approach I use to debug a module is to compile it with gdb  (helps  
to also compile freeradius with gdb).  Then run it under gdb with -X.   
You can then set breakpoints or other gdb trace commands and then feed  
it the input that causes the problem.