Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:01:01 +0200 From: Reinhard Weismann <reinhard.weismann@callooh.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what means: sockstat: sysctl(): No such process Message-ID: <20060908190101.82a49418.reinhard.weismann@callooh.com> In-Reply-To: <20060908141832.GA30620@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060907162940.7aa65884@jadzia.intern.creative.co.at> <20060908141832.GA30620@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:18:32 -0500 Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 07), tequnix@frogmi.net said: > > hallo list > > > > while running > > > > [ $(sockstat | grep -c saslauthd) -gt 90 ] && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd restart > > > > via cron (/etc/crontab, as root) (why i do this is of no importance > > for this question), i get from time to time - about 3-4 times a day, > > cronjob runs every 11 minutes - the message: > > > > sockstat: sysctl(): No such process > > > > i do not understand why i get this only sometimes, and what this > > exactly means. > > Sockstat first gets a list of all open sockets, then looks up the > command name for each one. If the process has exited before the name > is looked up, you get the warning, and sockstat prints "??" as the > process name. You can quiet it by redirecting stderr to /dev/null: > sockstat 2>/dev/null thank you for explanation. i will quieten it by redirecting stderr as you suggested. ¨reinhard -- Algol-60 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed. -- T. Cheathamhelp
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