MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

ps(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities ps(1)
Messages
Message: bad numeric ID at "–option list"
Cause: You specified a numeric identifier for a process, group, or session that was not a
valid number.
Action: Make sure that all numeric IDs are valid numbers.
Message: badly constructed format string "format"
Cause: The output format string was not correct.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section of the ps man page for a list of possible for-
mat specifications.
Message: can’t access your terminal
Cause: The terminal associated with the standard input was not accessible.
Action: When running ps without a controlling terminal, you must specify one of the
–G, –g, –p, –t, –U,or–u options to identify the processes on which ps is to
report.
Message: Missing format string after –o
Cause: You specified the –o option but did not provide a format string as its argument.
Action: Provide the missing format string.
Message: Missing idlist after –option
Cause: You specified the option option but did not provide a list of
IDs as its argument.
Action: Provide the missing list of IDs.
Message: Missing namelist after –n
Cause: You specified the –n option but did not provide the name of an executable as its
argument.
Action: Provide the missing name.
Message: more than num items in "–option" list at "string"
Cause: You specified more than num items in the list given as an argument to –option.
Action: Specify no more than num items in the –option argument list.
Message: no matching processes found.
Cause: ps did not find any find any processes which matched the specified search cri-
teria.
Action: Confirm the command options for ps
Message: process table: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
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