On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:18:32 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 07), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > hallo list > > > > while running > > > > [ $(sockstat | grep -c saslauthd) -gt 90 ] && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd > > restart > > > > via cron (/etc/crontab, as root) (why i do this is of no importance > > for this question), i get from time to time - about 3-4 times a day, > > cronjob runs every 11 minutes - the message: > > > > sockstat: sysctl(): No such process > > > > i do not understand why i get this only sometimes, and what this > > exactly means. > > Sockstat first gets a list of all open sockets, then looks up the > command name for each one. If the process has exited before the name > is looked up, you get the warning, and sockstat prints "??" as the > process name. You can quiet it by redirecting stderr to /dev/null: > sockstat 2>/dev/null thank you for explanation. i will quieten it by redirecting stderr as you suggested. ¨reinhard -- Algol-60 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed. -- T. Cheatham _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"