Force Memory Dump

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 04), Sean Murphy said:
>    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 ..
>    Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> In the last episode (Jun 04), Sean Murphy said:
> 
>  How do you force a memory dump from a specific PID?
> 
> /usr/bin/gcore

gcore is one of the few programs left that still requires procfs. 
You'll need to mount it: mount -t procfs /proc /proc

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com