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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: setproctitle support
Date: 26 Jul 1996 14:17:19 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4t88a0$66n@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
Charles Reese <reese@chem.duke.edu> wrote:
>I am trying to install the qpop package on my FreeBSD 2.1R system. The
>compile fails with an indication:
>
>popper.o: Undefined symbol `_setproctitle' referenced from text segment
>
>Inspecting the INSTALL file indicates that this is a feature that requires
>OS support. So my question is does FreeBSD support setproctitle and if so
> how do I enable it and if not can I just undefine SETPROCTITLE and run
>the pop server without it.
It's in -current (see below); basically it's just a bit of code
that's been hacked out of sendmail. Sendmail uses it so that it
shows up in the ps output as
sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
rather than just boring old "sendmail". Personally, I'd just run
qpop without it, unless this is the fix for passwords showing up
on the command line (in which I'd hack the code out of the
sendmail source myself!)
SETPROCTITLE(3) FreeBSD Programmer's Manual SETPROCTITLE(3)
NAME
setproctitle - set the process title for ps(1)
SYNOPSIS
#include <libutil.h>
void
setproctitle(const char *fmt, ...)
Link with -lutil on the cc(1) command line.
DESCRIPTION
The setproctitle library routine sets the process title that appears on
the ps(1) command.
--
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/