what means: sockstat: sysctl(): No such process

[Reinhard Weismann]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:18:32 -0500
Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:

> In the last episode (Sep 07), tequnix at frogmi.net said:
> > hallo list
> > 
> > while running 
> > 
> > [ $(sockstat | grep -c saslauthd) -gt 90 ] && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd restart
> > 
> > via cron (/etc/crontab, as root) (why i do this is of no importance
> > for this question), i get from time to time - about 3-4 times a day,
> > cronjob runs every 11 minutes - the message:
> > 
> > sockstat: sysctl(): No such process
> > 
> > i do not understand why i get this only sometimes, and what this
> > exactly means. 
> 
> Sockstat first gets a list of all open sockets, then looks up the
> command name for each one.  If the process has exited before the name
> is looked up, you get the warning, and sockstat prints "??" as the
> process name.  You can quiet it by redirecting stderr to /dev/null:
> sockstat 2>/dev/null

thank you for explanation. i will quieten it by redirecting stderr as
you suggested.

¨reinhard


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