Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mrmarx!abvax!sgtech!adnan From: adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: "ps: seek error" - What does it mean? Message-ID: Date: 25 May 89 07:33:44 GMT References: <424@ssp2.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1887@mas1.UUCP> Sender: adnan@sgtech.UUCP Organization: Star Gate Technologies, Inc. Lines: 19 In-reply-to: marc@mas1.UUCP's message of 24 May 89 02:28:06 GMT In article <1887@mas1.UUCP> marc@mas1.UUCP (Marc deGroot) writes: > 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. This has turned out to be an SCO Xenix bug for which they have a fix (pach number xnx120). -- Adnan Yaqub Star Gate Technologies, 29300 Aurora Rd., Solon, OH, USA, +1 216 349 1860 ...uunet!abvax!sgtech!adnan