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From: Kenny Hanson <khanson@pdspc.com>
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Subject: FW: ps warning
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Never mind.  I found dev_mkdb after looking around for a while.  Still
don't understand
the crash, but at least I got rid of the warning in ps.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kenny Hanson 
> Sent:	Friday, November 21, 1997 1:04 PM
> To:	Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)
> Subject:	ps warning
> 
> Hello,
> 	I have a VS440FX mainboard with an Adaptec 2940 and 2 wide hard
> drives.
> I recently had a very strange lockup where the only thing I could do
> was hit ctrl-alt-del 
> to reboot the system.  I got a very quick message that there were some
> processes that
> could not be shutdown (runaways I suppose) and that I should do
> something, I couldn't
> get it all down by the time it was cleared.  I've rebooted without any
> obvious errors showing
> up, except that now when I do a ps -ax to check out some stats on a
> program I get the 
> following warning:
> 
> ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory
> 
> 	I have no idea where my /dev name database went, but it's no
> longer there.
> I'm running 2.2.5-RELEASE.  Is there some way I can rebuild the dev
> name database?
> I'm a little lost on this one so any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  Thanx in advance
> 
> 	Kenny Hanson, Senior Research Analyst
> 	PDS Research and Development
> 	Email: 	khanson@pdspc.com
>