Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:22:44 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: recovering kernel options from compiled kernel? Message-ID: <200106271422.f5REMim00423@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:29:58 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106231629030.46362-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk>
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George galluped, > On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > Is there a way to interrogate a kernel to find out what options > > were used? I could do this to both, and then diff the > > outputs to see what's gone wrong . . . > Only if you had "options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE" in the config for both > kernels. This should be documented in LINT (or NOTES if using -current). I did this--and it turns out to cause problems. After a couple of days aof poking, I've found out that with this line included in my kernel, networking doesn't work (but everything else does). I remove the line, and the system is back to normal . . . Who should I tell about this, and what kind of traces will they want? hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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