Can't view cwd, environ, mem or status fields
Hi there,
I'm going through Lab 2.2 and can view the contents of cmdline inside a process (1177) in the /proc directory but Can't view cwd, environ, mem or status fields. I'm using the cat command, should I use another command or is not seeing the contents the point of the exercise?
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Depending which process you are looking at, you may need to use sudo, For a process I own:
q8:/proc/5093>cat environ
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/busHOME=/home/coopLANG=en_US.UTF-8LOGNAME=coopPATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/binSHELL=/bin/bashUSER=coopXDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000MANAGERPID=4973LISTEN_PID=5093LISTEN_FDS=1LISTEN_FDNAMES=dbus.socketINVOCATION_ID=8283f11aff2c45a5bf1d839248c4e5d8JOURNAL_STREAM=8:67518XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/coop/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/q8:/proc/5093>q8:/proc/5093>ls -l cwd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 coop coop 0 Feb 25 08:12 cwd -> /usr/local/coop8
q8:/proc/5093>
(cwd is always a symbolic link to a directory, so you cannot "cat" it.mem is never viewable, it is used for binary read and writes, don't mess with it.\
q8:/proc/5093>cat status
Name: dbus-daemon
Umask: 0022
State: S (sleeping)
Tgid: 5093
.....( a long listing)
I suspect you tried to look at a process that is not yours and so the s
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I got cut off. Check if the process is yours, I suspect it is not and you have to do sudo to look at it
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Hi,
As Coop said, it would be related to permissions, as in this case:
luis@starseedstation:/proc$ ls -F 18
ls: cannot read symbolic link '18/cwd': Permission denied
ls: cannot read symbolic link '18/root': Permission denied
ls: cannot read symbolic link '18/exe': Permission denied
arch_status coredump_filter io mountstats patch_state smaps timers
attr/ cpuset limits net/ personality smaps_rollup timerslack_ns
autogroup cwd@ loginuid ns/ projid_map stack uid_map
auxv environ map_files/ numa_maps root@ stat wchan
cgroup exe@ maps oom_adj sched statm
clear_refs fd/ mem oom_score schedstat status
cmdline fdinfo/ mountinfo oom_score_adj sessionid syscall
comm gid_map mounts pagemap setgroups task/As you see, I'm getting some "Permission denied" messages with a non-privileged user.
Regards,
Luis.0 -
Thanks, Coop and Luis. I see why I couldn't view these field now.
Much appreciated.
Owen.1 -
It's a pleasure!
Regards,
Luis.0
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