what is adb?

[RAVI S_1]

Hi gurus,
Can anybody brief me about adb command in HP-UX?

Thanx,
Ravi S

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ravi:

# man adb

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Ravi,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=993945

http://techsolutions.hp.com/en/B9106-90003/ch07s18.html

Its a debugging tool for programmers.

SEP

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

You should NOT be using adb. Use a full featured debugger like wdb/gdb or kwdb.

You can download wdb/gdb for free:
http://www.hp.com/go/wdb
(And it has documentation you can understand.)

About the only use for adb is to be able to modify files and to look at the kernel.

You have not assigned any points yet, please read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

>SEP: Its a debugging tool for programmers.

I would say it is more like a self flagellation for expert hackers. ;-)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Ravi:

Aside from self-flagellation as Dennis said, 'adb' can be used to query and convert some useful data:

To find the disk that you booted from:

# echo 'boot_string/S' | adb -o /stand/vmunix /dev/mem

...and for anyone averse to using Perl to convert an epoch timestamp to a date:

# epoch=1183163871
# echo "0d$epoch=Y" | adb | tr -d '\011'

Regards!

...JRF...

[RAVI S_1]

I got the answer