Re: procps still NG w/ pre-9

Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@adelphia.net)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:48:15 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Even with Stephen Tweedie's patch applied, I'm seeing everything as 'end'
> > in WCHAN. This is on a RH 5.2 install (props-1.2.9).
> >
> > Steve
> >
> I just installed Red Hat on a PC at home. I had this same problem.
> The version of procps that RH uses, apparently doesn't use the
> /etc/psdatabase any more (which you update with `psupdate`). Instead
> it expects to see /boot/System.map and read its symbols directly.
> Therefore, you must copy ../linux/System.map to /boot.

Hi Dick,

Last time I looked into this, I thought I'd read that the newer procps
utils parse /proc for information. I don't even _have_ a 'psdatabase'
file anywhere and it worked until quite recently.

Still, it's worth another look - thanks!

Steve

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