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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:14:52 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Force Memory Dump
Message-ID:  <20070604201452.GC52959@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <46646A31.1070702@calarts.edu>
References:  <4664528E.8080400@calarts.edu> <20070604185302.GB52959@dan.emsphone.com> <46646A31.1070702@calarts.edu>

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In the last episode (Jun 04), Sean Murphy said:
>    I get this error when trying gcore what am I doing wrong?
>    # gcore 581
>    gcore: /proc/581/file: No such file or directory
>    # cd /proc
>    # ls -la
>    total 4
>    dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 May  8  2005 .
>    drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  512 Apr  3 17:03 ..
>    Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> In the last episode (Jun 04), Sean Murphy said:
> 
>  How do you force a memory dump from a specific PID?
> 
> /usr/bin/gcore

gcore is one of the few programs left that still requires procfs. 
You'll need to mount it: mount -t procfs /proc /proc

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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