arybicki.lax1b@xerox.com
Date: 06/17/92


From: arybicki.lax1b@xerox.com
Subject: Re: ps command
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 16:07:07 GMT


|In article <b_jl18#.genie@netcom.com> genie@netcom.com (Gene Choi) writes:
|>
|>Anyone having problems with the "ps" command who is
|>using 0.96a? I didn't used to have a problem when
|>using 0.95c+, but ever since the upgrade,
|>every time I do a "ps" or "ps -aux" the computer
|>responds:
|>
|>error reading kmem
|>
|>Anyone know what's wrong? Is this a known
|>bug to 0.96a? I even tried d/l the latest version
|>of ps from banjo, to no avail. I get the same
|>error message.
|>
|>Gene

|There is no bug. You must rebuild the kernel nlist, /etc/psdatabase,
|with the ps -U flag. This must be done after a kernel build,
|because it uses the non-stripped kernel (/usr/src/linux/tools/system).

|Also, if you upgrade, and the process structure changes, you must recompile
|ps with the new header files.

Because of the ps' dependancy on the kernel, would'n it be a good idea to
release ps with krenel binaries and sources? That way everyone would have
a good ps working, and all interested in kernel hacking would be able to
rebuild the correct version of ps
                                        ----- Adam Rybicki -----
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