Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!mas1!marc From: marc@mas1.UUCP (Marc deGroot) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: "ps: seek error" - What does it mean? Message-ID: <1887@mas1.UUCP> Date: 24 May 89 02:28:06 GMT References: <424@ssp2.idca.tds.philips.nl> Organization: Measurex Automation Systems, Cupertino CA Lines: 17 > In article adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub) writes: >Our Intel 386 box with Xenix 2.3.1 has a problem, and it is probably >one we have inflicted on ourselves. After the system is rebooted and >weeds. Maybe somebody could tell me what seeks ps does. ps tries to open /unix to read the symbol table. That's how it knows where the process table is in the kernel. The easiest fix is to make a link from the booted kernel to /unix. Another approach is to use the -n option on ps (this is from memory - I may be wrong) which allows you to specify which kernel file is used. Another coherent emission from: -- Marc de Groot (KG6KF) "The apparent stupidity of a bug ..!uunet!apple!mas1!marc is directly proportional to the ..!uunet!hoptoad!noe!marc amount of time it took to find it." mdg@postgres.berkeley.edu -me