Re: psdatabase file in /boot

[Dale Miller <dale@csd.uwo.ca>]

On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:

> It is used by ps(1) for the WCHAN field, which gives the kernel
> function where the process in question is sleeping.  You can update it
> by using psupdate(8).
> 
> To my knowledge, it is not used by anything else.
> 
I tried running psupdate and I get an error message
bad magic number. Any idea what that might be caused
from? Does it have to do with the fact that I am 
using the elf compiler and libraries??

Thanks

Dale