Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:17:55 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Force Memory Dump Message-ID: <20070605001755.GA33457@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4664A962.1050907@calarts.edu> References: <4664528E.8080400@calarts.edu> <20070604185302.GB52959@dan.emsphone.com> <46646A31.1070702@calarts.edu> <44wsyj79ww.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4664A962.1050907@calarts.edu>
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:08:02PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Don't top-post, please. > > Sean Murphy [1]<smurphy@calarts.edu> 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
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