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Solaris xmcd wrapper bug...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Thu Jul 1 11:14:47 1999

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:14:36 -0400 (EDT)
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>

> m56-129-17% ps -wwaux | grep vold
> nocturne 24577  0.3  2.0  800  588 pts/0    S 11:11:44  0:00 grep vold
> root       484  0.0  3.6 2156 1068 ?        S   Jun 27  0:01 /usr/sbin/vold
> m56-129-17% /mit/sipb/arch/sun4x_56/bin/xmcd
> ps: illegal option -- f
> usage: ps [ -aceglnrSuUvwx ] [ -t term ] [ num ]
> This machine is currently not running /usr/sbin/vold, which
> is necessary for xmcd to function properly on Sun workstations.
> If this machine is a cluster workstation, you can restart vold by
> typing:
> 
>                add consult
>                voldstart  
> at your athena% prompt.  If this is not a public workstation, you
> can restart vold by logging in as root and running:
>                /usr/sbin/vold &                                  
> m56-129-17% which ps
> /mit/nocturne/bin/ps
> m56-129-17% ls -la /mit/nocturne/bin/ps 
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 nocturne mit           11 May 11  1995 /mit/nocturne/bin/ps -> /usr/ucb/ps
> m56-129-17% ps -wwaux | grep vold
> nocturne 24586  0.3  2.0  800  588 pts/0    S 11:12:19  0:00 grep vold
> root       484  0.0  3.6 2156 1068 ?        S   Jun 27  0:01 /usr/sbin/vold
> m56-129-17% grep ps `which xmcd`
> vold=`ps -ef | grep /usr/sbin/vold | grep -v grep | wc | awk '{print $1}'`

Really, that should be '/usr/bin/ps -ef' instead of just 'ps -ef'.

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