Asri-unix.396 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!solomon@uwisc Fri Jan 1 20:09:18 1982 Re: PS COMMAND PROBLEM I'm not sure how many people will respond to you problem, since not many people are that familiar with V6 UNIX anymore (we are about to chuck our last V6 system). The problem is that PS needs to know which device is used for swapping and it does it by peeking inside /unix (which should be the a.out for the current kernel). It uses the namelist (see nm(1)) of /unix to find out where to look. However, somebody decided that that was too inefficient, so it keeps a record of where to look in a file (/etc/pssym, or something like that). Whenenver you change the kernel, things get moved around, so you have to update the info. Look around for a program called psset (or something like that, I think it's in /etc) and run it (without arguments) as su. Be sure the current version of the system is in /unix before you do that. (A common strategy is to keeps several versions around with the current one linked (ln(1)) to /unix). A better fix to your problem is to stop running an obsolete version of UNIX! Marvin Solomon ucbvax!uwvax!solomon solomon@uwisc ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.