From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 10:27:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7943D16A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:27:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228AE43D3F for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com ([81.103.67.204] helo=shrike.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1Advuu-0009TL-R0; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:27:00 +0000 Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1Advut-0003U0-2R; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:26:59 +0000 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:26:59 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: David Landgren Message-ID: <20040106182658.GX33404@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , David Landgren , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3FFACFE7.8080505@landgren.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tRcR9GoWqjXrt11v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FFACFE7.8080505@landgren.net> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:27:03 -0000 --tRcR9GoWqjXrt11v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:10:31PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: > I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I=20 > haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into=20 > production. >=20 > The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then=20 > later restarted. >=20 > I've since noticed that cron didn't restart, which is odd, but fixable,= =20 > but more importantly, when I run ps, it spits out 'ps: warning:=20 > /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory' (although, as far as I can=20 > tell, the output is perfectly reasonable). >=20 > I'm wondering if one is a symptom of the other. In any event,=20 > /var/run/dev.db is most certainly not there. You don't need to reboot - just run dev_mkdb. ceri --=20 --tRcR9GoWqjXrt11v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/+v3yocfcwTS3JF8RAsiLAJ4sq0AbTKiDjGNb3ZcsIK/IGAL8awCgxcyu KLGb/L3U1rZd7lgVmeT/Bw4= =nzX1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tRcR9GoWqjXrt11v--