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From: soledad!dlong@celerity.fps.com (Dean Long)
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Subject: Re: Naive problem with dataless client
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In article <10313@brazos.Rice.edu> rlee@digigw.lab.nanko.digital.co.jp writes:
[...]
>Problem: The commands, w, vmstat, and ps (!) do not work on the dataless
>client, but do so on the 4/370.  "w" and "ps aux" simply return silently
>while vmstat comes back with the message "vmstat: Disk init info not in
>namelist".
[...]

It sounds like the dataless client is missing /vmunix.  That would cause
'w' and 'ps' to stop working, because they need the symbol table in
/vmunix to find addresses in /dev/kmem.  That's probably the problem with
'vmstat' too, since complains about a 'namelist' (/vmunix).

Dean Long
dlong@soledad