In article <CAHHrw.Mwy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jeg7e@livia.acs.Virginia.EDU (Jon Gefaell) writes:
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>In article <22hpgh$rvm@pollux.usc.edu> jwiegley@pollux.usc.edu (Jeffrey Wiegley) writes:
>>
>>well, once more this new release of SLS is driving me crazy, it seems to me
>
>Ah, that's why it's called TEST :)
>>
>>newest problem is with the command 'ps'  I generated this script so that
>>you could see the problem:
>>
>>I tried several different versions of fstab records but none seem to help.
>>also the directory /proc does exist.
>>
>>Script started on Tue Jul 20 14:40:56 1993
>># cat /etc/fstab
>>/dev/hda4     /root   ext2    defaults
>>/dev/hda3     none    swap    defaults
>>/proc /proc   proc    defaults
>># 
>>
>># ps -aux
>>/proc must be mounted
>>Make sure that a directory /proc exists, then include the following
>>line in your /etc/fstab file:
>>/proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>>Then the next time you boot, ps should work.  In the meantime, do:
>>mount /proc /proc -t procps.c:/proc/uptime: No such file or directory
>
>Ah, lemme help you parse this!
>
>mount /proc /proc -t 
>
>procps.c:/proc/uptime: No such file or directory
>
>Does that help?
>
>Check permissions on /proc?

Here's one more try at parsing:

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>>Then the next time you boot, ps should work.  In the meantime, do:
>>mount /proc /proc -t procps.c:/proc/uptime: No such file or directory
                           ^
                           | Break it here.

mount /proc /proc -t proc
ps.c:/proc/uptime: No such file or directory

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