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From: uad1146@dircon.co.uk (Stuart Millington)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: AmigaMINIX 1.5.10.1 Problems - already!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.211911.21396@dircon.co.uk>
Date: 27 Jun 91 21:19:11 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.213421.25788@dircon.co.uk> <10308@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: The Direct Connection, UK
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sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz) writes:

>uad1146@dircon.co.uk (Stuart Millington) writes:


>>1)  'ps' does not find the proccess names. 
>>    'ps -U /kernel /fs /mm' gives
>>           can't read kernel namelist : no such file or directory

>I have never tried it myself (ahum), but I guess that ps needs either
>the .out files (kernel.out etc) or the .mix files to read the namelists,
>have you tried both? I just looked at kernel.mix with strings, and it seems
>to contain a symbol table. Second, are you sure that you actually created
>a file /kernel (kernel.mix) etc? It seems to me that ps couldn't open
>those files. Have you looked at ps.c?

   I tried 'ps' immediately after recompiling the system. I 
removed none of the files generated by the compilation, except 
minix.img
    This behavior is after re-compiling 'ps' Before it was re-compiled 
it always said "*:not found \n syntax error" - whatever it was 
asked to do. At least now it lists processes and tty's.

>>to compile anything I get :
>>   exception 8 caused signal 4 to pid XX (procnr 6) at pc0x400, 
>>sr0x0008
>>boot disk is hardly scarce.]

   It turns out 'as' was corrupted. I corrected it. Now something 
else has been corrupted - still looking.

>>realise it is _very_ easy to change this back into a script 
>>myself, BUT are the people responsible for the official updates 
>>going to depend on it being an executable in the future?

>I guess not, in fact I don't even see how/why we could depend on that.

   OK - I just didn't have an AmigaDOS C compiler handy. Personaly 
I can't think of any way to depend upon this being an executable 
rather than a script - unless it is extended to do more than 
it currently does.

>>PS - last never found the correct logout time on 1.5.10.0, or 
>>any subsequent patch - including 1.5.10.1 Is this a bug, or 
>>just a problem on my system?

>I'm not sure. Did it find the correct login time?

   Yes. It finds the correct username and login time. The "supposed" 
logout time is not random. It is dependant upon time, but is 
significantly - but not a fixed time - before the login. Duration 
is consequently zero.

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