Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /etc/ps_data
Message-ID: <13292@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 Jul 90 02:13:48 GMT
References: <23795@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
Lines: 8

In article <23795@adm.BRL.MIL> BKEHOE%WIDENER.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> Whenever they reboot the 3b2/400 here, any attempt to do /etc/whodo or ps
>results in '/etc/ps_data: file does not exist' (which, after rtfm'ing, I
>found out was the internal data structure file used by ps, whodo, et al);

The way this was supposed to work is that "ps" is installed with sufficient
privilege to read /dev/kmem and also create /etc/ps_data, and the first
time "ps" is invoked it creates the database.