From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 17:13: 7 2002 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 648DF37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D0C43E3B for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (9c22ea9d359ecb6f0c2af2e2e14f916e@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g930Dwho038243; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g930Dwmt038242; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:13:58 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: MET Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: linproc - getting it running Message-ID: <20021003001358.GI45363@vectors.cx> References: <200210020802.58752.met@uberstats.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210020802.58752.met@uberstats.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 >> (10.02.2002 @ 0602 PST): MET said, in 0.7K: << > I've got a program which is telling me to add this line to my /etc/fstab file: > > linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 > > But as I have no ideas what it is I figured I'd ask and find out. I > understand that linproc has to do with linux emulation with the filesystem, > but other than that I have no idea. check out linprocfs(5). you're nearly right there. linprocfs is as much a filesystem as procfs is. it provides a file-based interface into the processes currently running with linux emulation. > Do I just put that line into the bottom of fstab? It doesn't seem to fit the > style which that file has...is that ok? that's exactly what you do. expand the spaces into tabs and you'll find that it does in fact fit the formatting... it just doesn't look like it ::) > The only thing I found when searching for this string is installing > staroffice, which since it requires linux emulation I'm sure its a similar > task. a couple other ports and processes require it. running linux emulation without the linprocfs is possible and reasonable, but won't put much of a tax on your system. -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message