In this example distillerror is run on Solaris 9 with the command "ls badfile". The file "badfile" does not exist. distillerror gives a condensed report that makes it easy to spot the problem. $ distillerror ls badfile badfile: No such file or directory File Errors ----------- 0.0088 open /var/ld/ld.config Err#2 ENOENT 0.0265 lstat64 badfile Err#2 ENOENT Misc Errors ----------- Error Codes ----------- ENOENT No such file or directory Last 8 Lines ------------ 0.0229 brk(0x00027108) = 0 0.0231 brk(0x00031108) = 0 0.0265 lstat64("badfile", 0xFFBFEFA8) Err#2 ENOENT 0.0270 write(2, " b a d f i l e", 7) = 7 0.0273 write(2, " : ", 2) = 2 0.0277 write(2, " N o s u c h f i l e".., 25) = 25 0.0281 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 0.0285 _exit(2)