Al wrote:
> > What is /proc and what is it used for ?

David Brownlee replied
>         See
>         http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/index.html#procfs

Hmmm...
Looks like I'll have to buy the book...
I created a mount point "/proc"
and issued the command mount_procfs /proc /proc 
and it seemed to work, Is some such entry required
in fstab

al