Commands Reference, Volume 2

gennames Command

Purpose

Gathers all the information necessary to run the filemon, netpmon, pprof curt and splat commands in off-line mode.

Syntax

gennames[-f ]

Description

The gennames command gathers name to address mapping information necessary for the filemon, netpmon, pprof, curt and splat commands to work in off-line mode. The information gathered includes:

the list of all the loaded kernel extension, similar to what the genkex command reports,
the list of all the loaded shared libraries, similar to what the genkld command reports
the list of all the loaded processes, similar to what the genld command reports
for /unix and all kernel extensions and libraries, the output of the stripnm -z command is collected

Flags

-f	Collects the device information for physical and logical volumes. It also prints out the virtual file system information used by offline filemon.

Examples

To collect information needed for the filemon command in off-line mode, type:

gennames -f > gen.out

Related Information

The filemon command, gensyms command, genkex command, genld command, netpmon command, pprof command, stripnm command, curt command and splat command.

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