Freshly installed NAV 3.1.1. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10
/# /usr/local/nav/bin/nav status networkDiscovery: Up
...
pping.py (pid 65207) is running... ps: process id too large: 1162996552 alertengine (pid 65218) is running...
/# cat /usr/local/nav/var/run/alertengine.pid 65218 1162996552
The first number in the pid-file is indeed the pid, but why the garbage at the end?
The problem is there in 3.1.0 and earlier versions too, but then 'nav status' didn't mind.
--Ingeborg