From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 02:46:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA06316 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 02:46:39 -0700 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 CAA06286 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 02:46:30 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA03253 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 10:46:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA09552 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 10:46:21 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA02773 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 10:09:15 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510030909.KAA02773@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.0-950928-SNAP now available for testing To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 10:09:12 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <28990.812682314@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 2, 95 06:05:14 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: 993 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > o a non-null spwd.db file (containing at least the root entry, so > > rsh/rcp/rdump/rrestore would work) > > Hmmmm. Well, I've used the default spwd.db from the distribution, > I assume that at least has root in it. It's 40K. Yeah, that's ok. Last time i've been checking, the .db file has been created by a "touch spwd.db" only. > > o the ps(1) command was entirely useless (no /dev/kmem, no kernel > > with a symbol table around) > > What ps command? I don't have that on the fixit floppy! Hmmmm. It's been there on my last fixit floppy. Anyway, ps(1) is something useful. I'd go for a cut-down version, based on procfs. It's hard to figure out which process to kill if you cannot get a list of them. :) The current approach for the fixit floppy seems to be fine for me! (the two-floppy set) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)