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From: micro@micrtk.CACTUS.ORG (Ray Schafer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ps fails
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.205141.7861@micrtk.CACTUS.ORG>
Date: 9 Feb 91 20:51:41 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.182949.22238@mccc.edu>
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In article <1991Feb8.182949.22238@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>AT&T 6386/33 running SV/386 R3.2.2
>
>When a user invokes ps, the system responds:
>
>ps: unlink() failed
>ps: /etc/ps_date, Permission denied
>ps: Please notify your System Administrator.
>
>/etc/ps_data is 644.  What gives?

I understand that this is a known bug for the 3b2.  What we do is to
run a cron job every 10 mins to chmod it to 666, or you could "su" and
do a ps, that will fix it temporarily.

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