From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 6:50:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F0337B424 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01410; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:51:26 -0500 Message-Id: <200009291351.IAA01410@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: , "Ronan Eckelberry, Sr. Systems Administrator" Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:51:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: "bad namelist" In-reply-to: <008901c02989$e8a85c20$45010a0a@ronannotebook> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Sep 00, at 16:23, Ronan Eckelberry, Sr. Systems Administrat wrote: > Does anyone know why all of the sudden I would be getting a "bad = > namelist" error when trying to do a "w", "ps", or "uptime". I don't = > know of anything that has been done to this box that would cause that. > > -Ronan As I understand this, there is a bug in FreeBSD 4.0 that *can* cause this problem after awhile. This can be patched and a few programs recompiled in order to fix it, though by the time I was experiencing this problem, 4.1 was in my snail mailbox. If you prefer to patch the system, check the mailing list archives at www.FreeBSD.org, as this has been covered much better there. In the event you're not using FreeBSD 4.0, please send dmesg output to this list so we can have more information. Good luck, -charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message