From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 10:25:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD3437B404 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:25:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 919EF43F93 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1049048740.76e4e6@mired.org) Received: (qmail 54027 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2003 18:25:40 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 25 Mar 2003 18:25:40 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16000.40739.376632.313662@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:25:39 -0600 To: "Tamir Halperin" Cc: Subject: RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation In-Reply-To: <985DF46E87E0C047A3670048DBCAD0556BBD@andrew.brobus.net> References: <985DF46E87E0C047A3670048DBCAD0556BBD@andrew.brobus.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.71 (Hoop, Jr.) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.9 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <985DF46E87E0C047A3670048DBCAD0556BBD@andrew.brobus.net>, Tamir Halperin typed: > I did do a custom kernel only it wasn't me and the person that did this for me is no longer available to refer the question to. > > I remember clearly that he was interested in shrinking down the size of the kernel for the sake of saving memory but I don't remember the details of how he achieved this. > > What are some typical things to look for and where when trying to hunt down a config file for a custom kernel. /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. That should have GENERIC and LINT in it. Anything else there is a custom kernel, and can be used as the value of the KERNCONF= parameter to make kernel. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message