From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 16 00:01:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26455 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26449 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:01:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA12305; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:56:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:56:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: CyberPsychotic cc: ben@rosengart.com, Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel dies. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, CyberPsychotic wrote: > > The supported procedure is to make world (userland) > > could you please clarify abit, what's meant as "world" in BSD? the set of > binaries? Some other environment? World in this case refers to the whole system (/bin and /usr/bin but not /usr/local/bin, for example). > > and then build your > > new kernel, if you're upgrading to newer source. However, if config(8) > > hasn't changed, you might be able to get away with building the kernel > > hmm.. The things with kernel stuff (i.g. in what packages it's > distributed, what actions are supposed to be taken. What are > directories/files/binaries dependences etc) is still cloudy to me abit, is > there manual covering such things? I looked thro handbook and some manuals > with no much related info there. The kernel is distributed with the rest of the system. Look at the section in the handbook about keeping current with ctm or cvsup. > > only. Why would you want to, though? > > well, the primary problem is : I have kernel 2.2.1 on some machine > installed, and when I recompiled kernel there to support firewalling, > machine started crashing every 15 mins blaming routed daemon in it. For > one of the solutions I was suggested to upgrade kernel there. If I were you, I would install cvsup from ports or packages, cvsup to the latest 2.2.6-stable source, "make world", and rebuild and install my kernel. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message