pidof: invalid option -- x

Tallam, Sreenivas Sreenivas.Tallam at netapp.com
Wed Dec 26 18:34:14 UTC 2007


Hi All,
 
I am trying to bring up the root file system on a PPC 405 chip using a
flavor of Montavista Linux (4.0.1) wich has linux version 2.6.10 .
As the root file system system comes up, some of the daemons throw the
following error.
 
Starting system log daemon: syslogd klogdpidof: invalid option -- x
BusyBox v1.01 (2006.06.06-15:58+0000) multi-call binary
 
No help available.
 
.
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron/var/spool/cron: No such file
or directory
/var/spool/cron: created
crontabs: No such file or directory
crontabs: created
pidof: invalid option -- x
BusyBox v1.01 (2006.06.06-15:58+0000) multi-call binary
 
No help available.
 
.
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdMissing privilege separation
directory: /var/empty/sshd
pidof: invalid option -- x
BusyBox v1.01 (2006.06.06-15:58+0000) multi-call binary
 
No help available.
 
 failed (255: ).
 
 
But once I get to the linux prompt, I see
 
# ps
  PID  Uid     VmSize Stat Command
    1 root        576 S   init
    2 root            SW< [ksoftirqd/0]
    3 root            SW< [desched/0]
    4 root            SW< [events/0]
    5 root            SW< [khelper]
   10 root            SW< [kthread]
   24 root            SW< [kblockd/0]
   60 root            SW  [pdflush]
   61 root            SW  [pdflush]
   63 root            SW< [aio/0]
   62 root            SW  [kswapd0]
  627 root            SW  [mtdblockd]
  581 root            SW  [kseriod]
  704 root            SWN [jffs2_gcd_mtd6]
  706 root            SWN [jffs2_gcd_mtd2]
  708 root            SWN [jffs2_gcd_mtd7]
  717 root        704 S   syslogd -m 0
  831 root        460 S   /sbin/klogd -x
  952 bin         476 S   /sbin/portmap
  974 root        468 S   /usr/local/bin/pktd_reader
  998 root        460 S   /usr/local/bin/watcher
  999 root        780 S   -sh
 1862 root        688 R   ps

Can someone help me as to why I am seeing the pidof error?
 
Thanks,
Sreen



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