From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 11:23:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C4C16A4BF for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (adsl-65-64-145-209.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [65.64.145.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5397440CD for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 26785 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2003 18:21:53 -0000 Received: from user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net (HELO major.mygirlfriday.info) (65.41.216.204) by mongo.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 16 Sep 2003 18:21:53 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:22:02 -0500 From: Gary X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.00.6) Personal Organization: Hardly X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <6315803624.20030916132202@mygirlfriday.info> To: "freebsd-questions" In-Reply-To: <009d01c37c7e$64244d10$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <906762293.20030916105121@mygirlfriday.info> <003f01c37c6c$456bf100$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <958866990.20030916112625@mygirlfriday.info> <005a01c37c73$c1d21600$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <3012993764.20030916123512@mygirlfriday.info> <009d01c37c7e$64244d10$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: linking a dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:23:22 -0000 Hello Mike, Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 1:14:38 PM, you wrote: >> How do I know which one is being loaded, can't seem to find it in dmesg. MM> I think it's safe to assume that you're not booting kernel.GENERIC. You can MM> specify other kernels at boot time, but if you're not doing that, you can MM> safely delete kernel.GENERIC. Okay.. MM> Some like having a generic kernel around in case of an emergency, a MM> newly built kernel doesn't work correctly or for troubleshooting MM> purposes. good idea.. MM> Have you built a new kernel or upgraded the entire system? What's the MM> output of uname -v? no, haven't touched it, as it worked well "out of the box." Use it strictly for mail/IMAPS/DNS server. FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003 root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC -- Best regards, Gary