Error during restarting syslogd in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE

Rostislav Krasny rosti_bsd at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 29 15:19:59 PST 2004


--- Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> 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.

Should I send PR about this problem or maybe it was already fixed in CURRENT?

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