Re: Checkstat.sh -> /proc not mounted ??

[michael@mint.net]

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What are the permissions you have assigned to the /proc directory?

-mike.


On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:10:05PM +0000, Lyn St George wrote:
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> Hallo all
> 
> I've started using checkstat.sh, which does the job of restarting 
> Minivend if it's not running, but I get this message from Cron every
> time it runs:
> 
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
> 
> Doing cd /proc returns "permission denied", so /proc must 
> exist. My webhoster is using RH4.2 and cgiwrap - does the 
> cgiwrap make any difference in this situation? 
> 
> This script used to run without error on my local system 
> - RH 5.2 -  (though after installing Gnome it fails to grep - this 
> failure is not important) and I've not found any other 
> messages on the list about this. I have a suspicion that my 
> webhoster, Cihost.com, don't really know what they 
> are doing and have screwed something up - would 
> this be likely, or does anyone know of a different 
> explanation? I don't know much about Linux either (I'm
> basically an OS/2 user), but I see that my /mnt does 
> not contain proc (and /proc is empty) and it still worked 
> without these errors.
> Any solutions *much* appreciated - I'm getting 48 
> messages a day about this!
> Lyn St George
> lyn@zolotek.com		http://www.career-plus.com
> 
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