From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 29 21:22:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA04129 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 21:22:19 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA04123 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 21:22:11 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA13974; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 06:22:08 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA21052; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 06:22:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA02187; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:28:28 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510291828.TAA02187@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Lost my original /sbin/dset -q values To: efb@cotdazr.org (Everett F Batey) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:28:28 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Everett F Batey" at Oct 29, 95 05:46:18 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 536 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Everett F Batey wrote: > > Looking at strings of /dev/dset .. homed me in on /kernel and > /cdrom/kernel.Gen which are (per md5) identical .. dset(8) writes directly into the kernel. Of course, if your /kernel and /kernel.GENERIC are hard-linked, it's no surprise that ``both'' kernels are affected. (Huh, Jordan? We shouldn't hardlink them at installation time!) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)