Re: [cobalt-users] Could someone please tell me

[David Fuchs <dfuchs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The /proc filesystem is maintained by the kernel, and simply keeps state 
information for applications that are running (some items within /proc 
can be modified - it's like a control panel of sorts, but most items are 
read-only).  The `pidof' program received this error simply because the 
application(s) in question had either stopped, or had been updating the 
data at the time of the read (very unlikely to the point of 
impossibility as this kernel operation should be atomic).

HTH

David Lucas wrote:

> Could someone tell me what the following statements mean?
> They are from the logcheck report
>
> Sep 5 13:29:12 www pidof[31640]: can't read sid from /proc/31635/stat
>
> Sep 3 15:11:12 www pidof[10945]: can't get program name from 
> /proc/10944/stat
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