/proc file problems

[lorii]

I have this sco box that has a /proc file system that doesn't look right to me.....I could use some help.
Im getting this error:
UX:find: ERROR: //./proc/432 No such file or directory
when you do a df -k this is what you get:
filesystem kbytes used avail capacity mounted on
/dev/root 2048160 1875852 172308 92% /
/dev/stand 36720 5246 31473 15% /stand
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
/dev/fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
If you do an ls -al on /proc there are a ton of files in it:
# ls -al | pg
total 6
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 22 09:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 root sys 3072 Jan 22 09:46 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 22 09:49 0
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 22 09
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 22 09:49 1
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 22 09:49 1003
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 22 09:49 1020
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 22 09:49 1022
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 22 09:49 1024
dr-xr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 0 Jan 22 09:49 1121
dr-xr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 0 Jan 22 09:49 1124
dr-xr-xr-x 1 oracle dba 0 Jan 22 09:49 11285

There's more but you get the point!
There is noting in cron that is creating these files but they are created everyday every minute! Can anyone help.
Thanks!

 

[pcunix]

The proc file system is normal- nothing's wrong, and because processes come and go, it's not unexpected that find would have that problem.


I believe you have a man page on /proc; if not, it's fully covered in the on-line docs (scohelp).
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com