From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 22:29:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08934 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08927 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA22463; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:29:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kenny Hanson cc: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: ps warning In-Reply-To: <91DD7FDA88E4D011BED00000C0DD87E714DFBD@pds-gateway.pdspc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Kenny Hanson wrote: > 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. My copy of /var/run/dev.db appears to be made at boot time, looking at the last mod date/time. Try shutting down properly and rebooting. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major