Thanks for answer, but the thing with core is imposible as I said that there is no /proc/1 dir :( --- "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Anonymous wrote: > > > Hello > > > > I encountered a strange problem, and i'm not sure > that > > it originates or not in the kernel. > > the probl. is that on many slack boxes init dies > after > > some time, but the OS is still up and running. > > if I 'ps aux' the machine,no init, and /proc/1 > doesn't > > exist. > > although, `lsof | grep init` shows:init 1 > > root cwd DIR 8,3 472 2 / > > init 1 root rtd DIR 8,3 > > 472 2 / > > init 1 root txt REG 8,3 > > 468916 15607 /sbin/init > > init 1 root 0r CHR 1,3 > > 5659 /dev/null > > init 1 root 1u CHR 1,3 > > 5659 /dev/null > > init 1 root 2u CHR 1,3 > > 5659 /dev/null > > init 1 root 10u FIFO 8,3 > > 137774 /dev/initctl > > > > > > Any kind of ideea? > > > > Thanks, > > Uwe Bower > > The kernel will never send a signal 9 to init. > However, it can > send many other signals. If the signal handler in > init got > corrupt from a buffer overrun, bad memory, etc., > it's quite > possible for init to die. When it dies, it would > usually > die as a result of a seg-fault. You can observe > /proc/1/cwd to > see where init lives. There may be a core-file in > that directory. > The core-file might be able to give you a hint. > Also, somebody > who has su privs can `cp /dev/random /dev/initctl` > with some > interesting results. > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine > (797.90 BogoMips). > Note 96.31% of all statistics are > fiction. > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com