>> It is used by ps(1) for the WCHAN field, which gives the kernel >> function where the process in question is sleeping. You can update it >> by using psupdate(8). >> To my knowledge, it is not used by anything else.
>I tried running psupdate and I get an error message >bad magic number. Any idea what that might be caused >from? Does it have to do with the fact that I am >using the elf compiler and libraries?? It shouldn't. What was the exact command line you gave to psupdate? And do you indeed have a kernel in /usr/src/linux/vmlinux? Note that a compressed kernel (zImage or vmlinuz) won't do... It has to be the original, pristine vmlinux. -- http://www.wp.com/joelh --- Joel Ray Holveck --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped
