According to Tim Walls:
>
>You need to have procfs mounted on /proc - for mysterious reasons it
>looks up its command line parameters using it!
>

Yes!  That worked.  Thanks very much.

>I did submit a minor change to the package which would check for procfs
>mounted in the right place a couple of months ago (pkg/9560) and it does
>seem to have made it into current pkgsrc.  It may be time to update to a
>more recent pkgsrc (or else, my patch doesn't do what it says on the
>tin, in which case I apologise!)
>

No, my fault.  My pkgsrc is way out of date, I shall update it - I
promise ;-)

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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