Force Memory Dump

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:08:02PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote:
> 
>    Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Don't top-post, please.
> 
> Sean Murphy [1]<smurphy at calarts.edu> writes:
> 
> 
> 
>    I get this error when trying gcore what am I doing wrong?
>    # gcore 581
>    gcore: /proc/581/file: No such file or directory
>    # cd /proc
>    # ls -la
>    total 4
>    dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 May  8  2005 .
>    drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  512 Apr  3 17:03 ..
> 
> 
> You need to mount a procfs(5).
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> 
>    Sorry about top posting I forgot to switch my prefs.  Why is procfs
>    removed by default from FreeBSD?  I can track it to being available
>    and turned on in 4.x but removed in later versions.

History of security problems.  You are free to mount it on your own
systems if you choose - it's trivial to do so.

Kris