pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) (02/09/91)
AT&T 6386/33 running SV/386 R3.2.2 When a user invokes ps, the system responds: ps: unlink() failed ps: /etc/ps_date, Permission denied ps: Please notify your System Administrator. /etc/ps_data is 644. What gives? Thanks, Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (02/09/91)
In article <1991Feb8.182949.22238@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: >When a user invokes ps, the system responds: >ps: unlink() failed >ps: /etc/ps_date, Permission denied >ps: Please notify your System Administrator. From the FAQ posting: 16. Why do I get the error "ps: unlink() error" every once in a while? This error is caused by the ps program being unable to remove the /etc/ps_data file. This is usually a permissions problem on /etc or /bin/ps. The files and/or directories should be set with the following modes: drwxrwxr-x 20 root sys 3968 Apr 29 08:36 /etc -r-xr-sr-x 1 root sys 21472 May 22 1989 /bin/ps In english: /bin/ps must be mode 2xxx (set-gid) /bin/ps must have the same group as /etc (usually sys) /etc must be group writable -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc. uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170
micro@micrtk.CACTUS.ORG (Ray Schafer) (02/10/91)
In article <1991Feb8.182949.22238@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: >AT&T 6386/33 running SV/386 R3.2.2 > >When a user invokes ps, the system responds: > >ps: unlink() failed >ps: /etc/ps_date, Permission denied >ps: Please notify your System Administrator. > >/etc/ps_data is 644. What gives? I understand that this is a known bug for the 3b2. What we do is to run a cron job every 10 mins to chmod it to 666, or you could "su" and do a ps, that will fix it temporarily. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ray Schafer |Internet: 5004 Emerald Forest Circle |micro@micrtk.cactus.org Austin, Texas 78745 |UUCP: Ma Bell: |..!cs.utexas.edu!bigtex!micrtk!micro (512) 441-1010 |Disclaimer: Yeah, I meant it, so what? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gws@n8emr.uucp (Gary Sanders) (02/10/91)
In article <1991Feb8.182949.22238@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: >AT&T 6386/33 running SV/386 R3.2.2 > >When a user invokes ps, the system responds: >ps: unlink() failed >ps: /etc/ps_date, Permission denied >ps: Please notify your System Administrator. >/etc/ps_data is 644. What gives? I see the same thing from time to time on my system, I am running Interactive 2.2. It seems to happen if you do a "ps" then try to stop the command before it finishes. -- Gary W. Sanders (gws@n8emr or ...!osu-cis!n8emr!gws), 72277,1325 N8EMR @ W8CQK (ip addr) 44.70.0.1 [Ohio AMPR address coordinator] HAM BBS (1200/2400/9600/V.32/PEP/MNP=L5) 614-895-2553 Voice: 614-895-2552 (eves/weekends)
pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) (02/12/91)
In article <1991Feb09.140600.20193@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: =In article <1991Feb8.182949.22238@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: =>When a user invokes ps, the system responds: =>ps: unlink() failed =>ps: /etc/ps_date, Permission denied =>ps: Please notify your System Administrator. = =From the FAQ posting: Oops! Sorry. Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91
marz@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.zam) (02/21/91)
>AT&T 6386/33 running SV/386 R3.2.2 > >When a user invokes ps, the system responds: > >ps: unlink() failed >ps: /etc/ps_date, Permission denied >ps: Please notify your System Administrator. > >/etc/ps_data is 644. What gives? > >Thanks, >Pete >-- >Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College >Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math >UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 >Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91 > Peter, The directory "/etc" should be group writable, with the group "usually" being sys. If you check the permissions on "/bin/ps" you'll see that this program is set-group-id and group owned by sys. For "ps" to work properly, the program needs to be allowed to modify the "/etc" directory. $ ls -l /bin/ps -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin sys 38912 Sep 5 1989 /bin/ps $ ^ | set-group-id bit set. Hope this helps, Martin Zam (201)564-2554