Error during restarting syslogd in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 29), Rostislav Krasny said:
> > I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE installed on my old Pentium system. Look
> > at
> > following log please:
> > 
> > localhost# /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart
> > Stopping syslogd.
> > ps: kvm_getprocs: No such process
> > Starting syslogd.
> > 
> > 
> > What is 'kvm_getprocs' and why I get this error message? Is it a bug?
> 
> Same behavior during restarting inetd:
> 
> localhost# /etc/rc.d/inetd restart
> Stopping inetd.
> ps: kvm_getprocs: No such process
> Starting inetd.

It sounds like rc.subr is not redirecting ps errors to /dev/null when
shutting down services.

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	Dan Nelson
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