Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:25:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checking RAM Message-ID: <199807271825.LAA00633@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:45:50 PDT." <199807271745.KAA25470@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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> > However, as a follow-on to a discussion I was having with someone else > (where I was doing a bunch of whining about the challenges I was having > in "automatically" being able to determine the configuration of a given > FreeBSD box), the random idea came up that *IF* the kernel could stash > away the results of its probing in some way that might be amenable to > access by suitably-privileged processes at times arbitrarily distant > from re-boot (i.e, scannning logs & output of dmesg won't do the job), > this *might* be sufficiently useful to warrant some effort. Something like /var/run/dmesg.boot, perhaps? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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