console-kit: what is "/proc/16750/environ"

Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Tue Jul 15 00:12:07 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 08:39 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > This appears consistenently in my /var/log/messages file.
> > What IS this process and how do I fix this?
> > =============================================
> > Jul 11 08:24:53 bronze console-kit-daemon[7946]: WARNING: Couldn't read
> > /proc/16750/environ: Error reading file '/proc/16750/environ': No such
> > process
>
> # man proc:
>
>        /proc/[number]/environ
>               This file contains the environment for the process.  The 
> entries are  separated  by  null  bytes
>               (’\0’), and there may be a null bytes at the end.  Thus, 
> to print out the environment of process
>               1, you would do:
>         [... etc.]
>
> Also:
>
> # ls -l /proc/[number]/exe
>
> # cat /proc/[number]/cmdline
>        
>
Ok... I wasn't explict enough.  I am getting this message in the system
logs when I reboot the system.  Why is it even appearing?  Is this normal
or what?

Thanks!
Dan




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