/etc/ps_data

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <23795 at adm.BRL.MIL> BKEHOE%WIDENER.BITNET at cornellc.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> Whenever they reboot the 3b2/400 here, any attempt to do /etc/whodo or ps
>results in '/etc/ps_data: file does not exist' (which, after rtfm'ing, I
>found out was the internal data structure file used by ps, whodo, et al);

The way this was supposed to work is that "ps" is installed with sufficient
privilege to read /dev/kmem and also create /etc/ps_data, and the first
time "ps" is invoked it creates the database.