From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 23 1:12:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53F9514BE5 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 19516 invoked from network); 23 Oct 1999 08:12:28 -0000 Received: from useras28.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.137.32) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 1999 08:12:28 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA06383; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:12:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:12:44 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Ludwig Pummer Cc: Jeff Gray , Questions at FreeBSD Subject: Re: newbie kernel question- strip problem Message-ID: <19991023091244.A6233@marder-1> References: <19991023011835.B588@marder-1> <19991023020511.I588@marder-1> <38111FE7.5F578BF0@bigfoot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <38111FE7.5F578BF0@bigfoot.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:39:35PM -0700, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 05:52:57PM -0700, Jeff Gray wrote: > > > Maybe a [silly] rehash, but maybe not. > > > > > > The reason I ask is that neither the archives nor the earlier post by > > > Jason indicated that it was necessary to change permissions to do this > > > before using strip -g on a kernel. I am trying to understand if I > > > am solving the correct problem by changing permissions. > > > > Not sure why it's not documented, and yes you are solving the > > correct problem by changing permissions. > > The order in which I learned to do it is: > 1) compile kernel. stay in the compile directory > 2) cp kernel /var/crash/kernel.debug > 3) strip -g kernel > 4) make install > Yes, but the original poster already had a debug kernel installed so he needed chflags(1) to strip it. > That saves the trouble of modifying the copy of the kernel that's > already installed and chflag'ed. Maybe I should use the --strip-debug > option... > I don't think the original poster actually wanted a debug kernel. > --Ludwig Pummer > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message