From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 00:17:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79F416A41F for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9456713C455 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAB51A4D84; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9385511B4; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:17:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B402FC204; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:17:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:17:55 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Sean Murphy Message-ID: <20070605001755.GA33457@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <4664528E.8080400@calarts.edu> <20070604185302.GB52959@dan.emsphone.com> <46646A31.1070702@calarts.edu> <44wsyj79ww.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4664A962.1050907@calarts.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4664A962.1050907@calarts.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" Subject: Re: Force Memory Dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:17:56 -0000 On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:08:02PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Don't top-post, please. > > Sean Murphy [1] writes: > > > > 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 .. > > > You need to mount a procfs(5). > _______________________________________________ > [2]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > [3]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to [4]"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > Sorry about top posting I forgot to switch my prefs. Why is procfs > removed by default from FreeBSD? I can track it to being available > and turned on in 4.x but removed in later versions. History of security problems. You are free to mount it on your own systems if you choose - it's trivial to do so. Kris