Rich Morin wrote On 11/10/07 21:28,:

>At WWDC, some Apple folks discussed turning on DTrace early
>in the boot process.  I gather that this uses anonymous
>tracing, but I'm not at all sure where they started up the
>DTrace program.  Any suggestions on how to do this?
>  
>
Refer to the 'Anonymous Tracing' chapter of DTrace guide.

>FWIW, my notion is to have DTrace log a variety of "major
>events" (e.g., exec, fork, open),
>
Any tracing that you do at prompt can be done even here.

>feeding the output to a
>logging script.
>
The data is stored in kernel and can be retrieved later on
[after the system booted up] using 'dtrace -ae'.
-surya

>  So, I need the system to be in a state that
>can support file I/O, scripting, etc.
>
>-r
>  
>

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