Phil Ehrens wrote:
Well, it's a crime that a Slackware based distro would strip strace out of the toolset, because it's damned important. As important as ldd and ps. I would file a bug report with the distro maintainer. Slamd64 12.0 has been out for a long time, and it is worth the upgrade, based on my reading of the release notes.
I'm not sure about Slamd 11, but Slamd 12 certainly has strace.