From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 20:49: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1D537B401 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 20:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g463mnP9034287; Mon, 6 May 2002 15:48:49 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g463mntj034286; Mon, 6 May 2002 15:48:49 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:48:49 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: default Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Quick Question Regarding PS Message-ID: <20020506154849.A34255@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020506032521.A26795@jsite.lefort.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com on Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:11:17PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:11:17PM -0500, default wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for your help, but the man page actually doesn't say anything > about this. The line you refer to mentions that procfs should be mounted > when running ps, not that ps is necessary for procfs to work properly, which > would be the kind of problem that I am looking for. (In other words I'm > looking for applications that are dependant on ps to be there, not things > that ps is dependant on.) > > Maybe I'll just have a perl script designed. Thanks for you help. Even if you write a perl script, what's to stop your users from compiling a copy of ps(1) on a 4.1 box, and then running it on your machine? Your only real solution is to upgrade your machine to a later version. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message