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From: gws@n8emr.uucp (Gary Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ps fails
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.105341.11868@n8emr.uucp>
Date: 10 Feb 91 10:53:41 GMT
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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 see the same thing from time to time on my  system, I am running 
Interactive 2.2. It seems to happen if you do a "ps" then try
to stop the command before it finishes.




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