From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 19:12:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0321B16A4CE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 19:12:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from stelesys.com (web1.stelesys.com [63.175.100.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40C243D7C for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 19:12:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbell@stelesys.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=www.stelesys.com) by stelesys.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1DVa9D-0005DX-ST; Tue, 10 May 2005 15:12:04 -0400 Received: from 209.134.164.17 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jbell@stelesys.com); by www.stelesys.com with HTTP; Tue, 10 May 2005 15:12:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1841.209.134.164.17.1115752323.squirrel@209.134.164.17> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050510195910.03994fd0@office.compudoc.za.org> References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050510195910.03994fd0@office.compudoc.za.org> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:12:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jerry Bell" To: "Godfrey Hamshire" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps: bad namelist X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:12:08 -0000 Typically this is caused by a kernel and utilities (like ps and w) being out of sync. It sounds like you don't think that is the case, though. I suppose it could be a problem with your procfs, but I'm not sure that would cause this kind of symptom. My suspicion is still on inconsistencies between the kernel and "world". > ps: bad namelist > w: bad namelist Jerry http://www.syslog.org