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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0 Release and netstat
Date: 28 Nov 1994 20:56:31 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <3bb2v8$l5d@panix3.panix.com>, Bill Paul <wpaul@panix.com> wrote:

>1) Make sure /proc is mounted. If it isn't then either you took it out of
>   /etc/fstab or you didn't define 'options PROCFS' when you configured
>   your new kernel.

There is never any need to statically compile procfs into the 2.0
kernel as it is dynamically loaded by mount_procfs if not present.

-GAWollman

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