ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

[David Landgren]

I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I 
haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into 
production.

The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then 
later restarted.

I've since noticed that cron didn't restart, which is odd, but fixable, 
but more importantly, when I run ps, it spits out 'ps: warning: 
/var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory' (although, as far as I can 
tell, the output is perfectly reasonable).

I'm wondering if one is a symptom of the other. In any event, 
/var/run/dev.db is most certainly not there.

I guess I could reboot the server tonight, but I'm not sure that that 
will fix it, as I don't understand the cause. I've searched the archives 
a bit, and the best thread I could find dated from 1997, and suggested 
that it could be due to an unclean shutdown, which is definitely not the 
case here.

I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, where stable is defined as being what it 
was around June 2003.

I'd be grateful for any pointers you might have.

Thanks,
David
-- 
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