From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 6:48:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869DF37B403 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 06:48:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02577; Mon, 6 May 2002 09:52:02 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 09:52:02 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: default Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , jylefort@brutele.be Subject: Re: Quick Question Regarding PS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello - On Sun, 5 May 2002, default wrote: > 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.) What is a good criterion for "dependant on ps to be there"? If you state that, you could do something like a script based on, say: for filename in `find /usr -perm +0444 ! -type d -print` do if [ ] then echo $filename > fi done Actually that's a command line, not a script. &8-) DISCLAIMER - consider that pseudo-bash, with workabilty an exercise to the reader. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message