IDA Linux Local Debugging
Debugging Linux Applications with IDA Pro, locally
Last updated on July 29, 2020 — v0.1
You may already know that IDA lets you debug an application from an already existing IDB, by selecting the debugger using the drop-down debugger list.
However, it is also possible to start IDA in a way that it will initially create an empty IDB, and then either:
start a new process under its control
attach to an existing process
Launch IDA with a fresh new process
To do so, you will have to launch IDA from the command line, like so:
IDA will then launch the /bin/ls program, and break at its entrypoint
Attaching IDA to an existing process
For this example, we’ll launch, from a shell, a /usr/bin/yes process, and attach to.
Now, we’ll launch IDA so it offers a selection of processes to (and use quick filtering (Ctrl+F) to quickly find our process):
IDA will then attach to the selected process, and leave it suspended at the place it was when it was attached to:
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