ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

[Ceri Davies]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:10:31PM +0100, David Landgren wrote:
> I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I 
> haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into 
> production.
> 
> The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then 
> later restarted.
> 
> I've since noticed that cron didn't restart, which is odd, but fixable, 
> but more importantly, when I run ps, it spits out 'ps: warning: 
> /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory' (although, as far as I can 
> tell, the output is perfectly reasonable).
> 
> I'm wondering if one is a symptom of the other. In any event, 
> /var/run/dev.db is most certainly not there.

You don't need to reboot - just run dev_mkdb.

ceri

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