Re: procps still NG w/ pre-9

Neil Conway (nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:44:53 +0000

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Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Even with Stephen Tweedie's patch applied, I'm seeing everything as 'end'
> > in WCHAN. This is on a RH 5.2 install (props-1.2.9).
> >
> > Steve
> >
> I just installed Red Hat on a PC at home. I had this same problem.
> The version of procps that RH uses, apparently doesn't use the
> /etc/psdatabase any more (which you update with `psupdate`). Instead
> it expects to see /boot/System.map and read its symbols directly.
> Therefore, you must copy ../linux/System.map to /boot.

But things aren't all bad: it will recognise the difference between
(say) System.map-2.0.34 and System.map-2.0.36 and pick the appropriate
one...

Neil

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