From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 8 8:30: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat203.45.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.203.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A379A37B963 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 08:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA63839; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:30:28 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:30:28 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcore doesn't work? In-Reply-To: <62415.957796360@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 May 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 08 May 2000 00:42:15 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > Trying to debug a problem on a FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE system with PostgreSQL, > > and one suggestion was to try gcore on the process, but it generates: > > > > > gcore 87721 > > gcore: /proc/87721/file: No such file or directory > > > > Since its part of the system, shouldn't it work? :) > > Didn't /proc/1234/file go missing from RELENG_4 for a while? I know it > was added back into HEAD recently in 2000/04/22. Looks like it hasn't > been added back to STABLE yet. You may want to ask Brian Feldman > what the delays is, in case you can help out. :-) Actually, one thin that I had overlooked when reading the man page was the ability to specify an [exec] ... that appears to override the erquirement for a /proc/*/file ... thanks ... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message