Naive problem with dataless client

[Dean Long]

In article <10313 at brazos.Rice.edu> rlee at digigw.lab.nanko.digital.co.jp writes:
[...]
>Problem: The commands, w, vmstat, and ps (!) do not work on the dataless
>client, but do so on the 4/370.  "w" and "ps aux" simply return silently
>while vmstat comes back with the message "vmstat: Disk init info not in
>namelist".
[...]

It sounds like the dataless client is missing /vmunix.  That would cause
'w' and 'ps' to stop working, because they need the symbol table in
/vmunix to find addresses in /dev/kmem.  That's probably the problem with
'vmstat' too, since complains about a 'namelist' (/vmunix).

Dean Long
dlong at soledad