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1 total messages Started by Nathaniel Mishkin Mon, 03 Mar 1986 14:46
Re: process name strangeness (mbx_helper)
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Author: Nathaniel Mishkin
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1986 14:46
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    This doesn't seem to be very important, but I am curious.  On one
    of our file servers, the mbx_helper process shows up in the 'pst'
    listing as unnamed (i.e., with a UID number).  It is started the
    regular way from startup.spm via a 'cps /sys/mbx/mbx_helper', exactly
    as it is on other servers.  Only on one is it unnamed (of course,
    it doesn't show up in `node_data/proc_dir on that node, but does
    on others).

Sometimes, names get "stuck" -- the name of a previously incarnated process
stays around (in "`node_data/proc_dir") even after the process goes away.
(Typically, the process has to die in a somewhat horrible way for this
problem to arise.) This sometimes prevents NEW processes from using the
same name.  One or both of the following should fix your problem:  (1)
"dlf `node_data/proc_dir/mbx_helper"; (2) reboot your node.

                -- Nat Mishkin
                   Apollo Computer
                   apollo!mishkin

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