Subject: Re: ps redux
To: None <peterb@telerama.com>
From: Brian C. Grayson <bgrayson@orac.ece.utexas.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 03/23/2000 22:07:06
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:13:35PM +0900, Ken Nakata wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:16:14 -0500, "Peter Berger" <peterb@telerama.com> wrote:
> >
> > peterb# ps
> > ps: proc size mismatch (16608 total, 680 chunks).
> > ps: /proc exists but does not have a procfs mounted on it.
> > ps: fallback /proc-based lookup also failed. Giving up...
>
> It's statically linked which means you still have to rebuild ps itself
> after rebuilding libkvm.
If you mount the /proc filesystem in your /etc/fstab, then at
least the fallback method would have worked :) until you get
around to recompiling /bin/ps. (If your kernel is _drastically_
newer than your userland, then even the /proc fallback won't
work, however).
Brian