From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Dec 29 02:52:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA17274 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:52:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA17269 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:52:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA03144; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:22:06 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id VAA33935; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:22:09 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981229212208.V32696@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:22:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Marcel Moolenaar , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux ps(1) for FreeBSD References: <3688B050.B0E97AA9@scc.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3688B050.B0E97AA9@scc.nl>; from Marcel Moolenaar on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 11:34:56AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 11:34:56 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > background: > > The Oracle Application Server for Linux uses ps(1) and grep(1) to monitor the > creation of the necessary processes. The WRB could be easily tricked, but the > web server itself seems to want the 'forest' option of ps(1). In short I > don't at this time know if the web server doesn't start because it doesn't > get the right output from ps(1) or that some other problem exists... > > questions: > > Does anybody know if there is a port of the Linux ps(1) for FreeBSD? I don't know, but I'd consider it *extremely* unlikely. > if not; is somebody currently porting ps(1)? > if not; is ps(1) needed in other situations that a port is at all justified? The problem is that ps(1) reflects some of the kernel's most intimate parts. It's very difficult to fake a Linux environment at this level. About the best you can hope for is to fake something which Oracle will accept. Do you have more details? Is Larry Ellison still alive? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message