Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:10:31 +0100 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory Message-ID: <3FFACFE7.8080505@landgren.net>
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I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I
haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into
production.
The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then
later restarted.
I've since noticed that cron didn't restart, which is odd, but fixable,
but more importantly, when I run ps, it spits out 'ps: warning:
/var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory' (although, as far as I can
tell, the output is perfectly reasonable).
I'm wondering if one is a symptom of the other. In any event,
/var/run/dev.db is most certainly not there.
I guess I could reboot the server tonight, but I'm not sure that that
will fix it, as I don't understand the cause. I've searched the archives
a bit, and the best thread I could find dated from 1997, and suggested
that it could be due to an unclean shutdown, which is definitely not the
case here.
I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, where stable is defined as being what it
was around June 2003.
I'd be grateful for any pointers you might have.
Thanks,
David
--
Commercial OS breeds commerce, whereas free OS breeds freedom,
the only thing more dangerous and confusing than commerce.
-- Michael R. Jinks, redhat-list, circa 1997
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