Date: 13 Jul 2003 19:05:51 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Static <static@ninja-assassin.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad namelist Message-ID: <44ptke58og.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030711185107.Y98351@inton.Ninja-assassin.com> References: <20030711185107.Y98351@inton.Ninja-assassin.com>
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Static <static@ninja-assassin.com> writes: > I'm running fbsd 4.7 in a jail environment. I am unable to run the > following commands (so far) uptime, w, ps. I get the message 'bad > namelist' I did some googling and found some responses from about 2 > years ago stating incomplete upgrade. This was not the case, there has > been no update. > > %w > w: bad namelist > %w -n > w: bad namelist > %uptime > uptime: bad namelist > %ps > ps: bad namelist > %ps auxwwww > ps: bad namelist > > > FreeBSD inton.Ninja-assassin.com 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Thu > Feb 6 22:32:38 PST 2003 > user@jail9.johncompanies.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/47 i386 > > Any suggestions on things to look at? Reboot has not helped. Well, I wouldn't *expect* a jail to be able to pull the process list out of the kernel. It seems like a terrible idea to allow in the first place. I can imagine a carefully limited interface for getting some of that information out, but last I recall (and admittedly that's a pretty rusty memory), those programs dove directly into kernel data structures.
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