RE: PS Fails to report on System processes

["Bob's Lists" <bob lists raha com>]

> If those don't agree, you should be extremely suspicious.
> You might also want to do an
>     rpm -Va >somewhere
> and when it finally finishes, see if everything looks reasonable
> in the output.

Pardon my stupidity - something of a *nix newbie so I'm jumping in on this
thread because I just built myself a RH6.2 box to learn on...

I just tried that to see what would happen...

rpm -Va > check
vi check
S.5....T c /etc/host.conf
S.5....T c /etc/services
S.5....T c /etc/localtime
.......T c /etc/nsswitch.conf
S.5....T c /etc/info-dir
S.5..UGT c /etc/X11/fs/config
S.5....T c /etc/mime.types
S.5....T c /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
.M......   /var/spool/at/.SEQ
S.5....T c /etc/named.conf
S.5....T c /var/named/named.local
S.5....T c /etc/crontab
.M......   /dev/hdc
.M......   /dev/log
......G.   /dev/tty1
......G.   /dev/tty2
......G.   /dev/tty3
......G.   /dev/tty4
......G.   /dev/tty5
......G.   /dev/tty6
.....U..   /dev/vcs6
.....U..   /dev/vcsa6
S.5....T   /boot/kernel.h
"check" 52L, 1485C

uhuh... fine... wtf does it all mean?

Regards

Bob