It's also possible that 'libc.so.5' (a shared library) never existed and infact it 'ps' that has changed and is trying to use it. You could compare the size/details/contents of this 'ps' with one from another similarly (same distro) installed system. Simon Wood

-----Original Message----- From: Frank Shute [SMTP:shute@esperance.demon.co.uk] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 11:48 AM To: Alex Brett Cc: Schools List Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] ps not working

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:18:36AM -0000, Alex Brett wrote:

...

I tried to do a ps recently and got the following error:

[rebuke@Linux rebuke]$ ps -ef | grep squid ps: can't load library 'libc.so.5'

Any ideas?

Do:

# updatedb $ locate libc.so.5

If those commands don't work or locate doesn't find the library then it suggests that for some reason that library has disappeared and you have to re-install it. How you do that is of course dependent on your distribution.

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Frank

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