Alan Sparks wrote: > Mark Weaver wrote: >> no problem. personally I've always wondered why the proc file system >> exists at all as part of the file system. ya can't do anything with >> it; it's more of a tease than anything else. When I first started with >> Linux years ago I wasn't aware of it's "specialness" and looked like >> the monkey with his fist in a jar trying to do things with those >> "files" in there. ;P >> > > Huh? The /proc filesystem provides info for system monitoring tools > (like "top"). Also, the "files" therein provide system config > infomation, and can be altered to reset lots of things dynamically > during system run (check out "sysctl", for instance). > -Alan > I forgot to add the "tongue in cheek" part. my bad. of course I'm aware of those things now, but at the time... well that was a different story. hence the monkey with his fist in the jar. Actually I'm more interested to know just what processes go on the actually create that file system. -- Mark "If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity." ============================================== Powered by CentOS4 (RHEL4)