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To: Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Problem PS command 
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:38:22 GMT."
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Hi, Reference:
> From: Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk> 
> Subject: Re: Problem PS command 
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:38:22 +0000 (GMT) 
> Message-id: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961211153635.5571A-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk> 
>
> 
> There seems to be a problem with the ps command, which doesn't occur with
> top or the process filing system. Sometimes ps -ax just hangs up and has
> to be kill -9'ed.. The problem is when it's in scripts is really messes
> things up.
> 
> Has anyone got any ideas why this might be?

Did you recompile world ? :-)
ie make sure your kernel & ps & (from memory) libkvm all match ?

Julian
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Julian H. Stacey	jhs@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/