Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 15:42:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugs & problems in 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199507111342.PAA06051@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9507110904.AA21396@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Jul 11, 95 11:04:23 am
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As Thomas Graichen wrote: > graichen@mordillo:~> file bc.core > bc.core: data It's rather hard to find out about core files. I've once been looking into it, and it seems they don't have something you can easily use as a `magic number'. > graichen@mordillo:~> file test.o > test.o: NetBSD/i386 object file not stripped Hmm, this used to be a ``PDP-11 executable'' previously. :-) > * why not taking tha man-pages or info files about sysv shared mem > etc. from Linux and adapt them to FreeBSD I've got currently someone who is willing to write the man pages. Hold on. (Sorry, don't know his name offhand.) > * how about integrating gated into the FreeBSD basic distribution - i > think there should'nt be lines in netstart like It's got a restricted license. :-( > * ok - i may now read parts of the doc's in german (my native > language) but as far as i know (from testing the alpha-boot floppies) > my keyboard is still handled as a us one (maybe i'm wrong) I think there's no keyboard language handling by now, but it might be on Jordan's list. Jordan, please remember that keyboard language is different from dialog language. Many hackers here prefer US-layout keyboards (though not me :). > * is /usr/share/man chown'ed right - as i said i install via unpacking > the manpages.* files by hand - and i got bin.bin as owner for this dir > - but catman (... please use "echo /usr/bin/catman | nice -5 ...) runs > su man in the recommended way and can't thus create the > /usr/share/man/cat* entries Only the cat entries must be owned by man. The man dir and man? subdirs belong to bin. > * how is kernel core dumping handled in 2.0.5 (i hope that > i'll never have to do something with it :-) - earlier ther was a > kernel config option DODUMP - this is no longer there (grep through > /usr/src/sys) - and in LINT stands something like I've also asked about it, i'm going to update this in the kernel-debug FAQ, too. -- 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. ;-)
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