"ps: seek error" - What does it mean?

[Adnan Yaqub]

In article <1887 at mas1.UUCP> marc at mas1.UUCP (Marc deGroot) writes:

   > In article <ADNAN.89May15155425 at sgtech.UUCP> adnan at sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub) writes:
   >Our Intel 386 box with Xenix 2.3.1 has a problem, and it is probably
   >one we have inflicted on ourselves.  After the system is rebooted and
   >weeds.  Maybe somebody could tell me what seeks ps does.

   ps tries to open /unix to read the symbol table.  That's how it knows where
   the process table is in the kernel.  The easiest fix is to make a link from
   the booted kernel to /unix.  Another approach is to use the -n option
   on ps (this is from memory - I may be wrong) which allows you to specify
   which kernel file is used.

This has turned out to be an SCO Xenix bug for which they have a fix
(pach number xnx120).
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Adnan Yaqub
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