Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh
From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: "ps: seek error" - What does it mean?
Message-ID: <664@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 14:04:34 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <3569@ron.rutgers.edu> ron@ron.rutgers.edu writes:
>The PS seek error is usually caused by the fact you are booting
>from a file other than /unix.  PS does nlist on /unix to find the
>offsets for the various structures it peers into.

Excepting that on Xenix, the kernel is usually named /xenix.

The PS seek error can be fixed with a patch from SCO tech support.
Sorry, I don't have the patch number handy.

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Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com