From: Martin White (martin@pandora.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/27/93


From: martin@pandora.demon.co.uk (Martin White)
Subject: Re: free and ps Don't Work under SLS 1.0
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:08:37 +0000

In article <lmddttINNcan@paducah.cs.utexas.edu> glenn@cs.utexas.edu
    (Glenn G. Lai) writes....

> I've not seen others complain about this, but this happened to me with two
> sets of SLS files downloaded by two different people. The error messages
> I got are
>
> /# ps
> /proc must be mounted
> ps.c:read_globals:uptime: No such file or directory
> /# free
> cat: /proc/meminfo: No such file or directory
>
> The "/proc" directory of course doesn't exist (yet). Suggestions appreciated.

Create the '/proc' directory and then enter

   mount /proc /proc -t proc

or add

   /proc /proc proc defaults

to '/etc/fstab' and reboot. 'ps' and 'free' should then work.

Martin

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