From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 21 13:59:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10409 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10402 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:59:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA22891; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:59:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from klinzhai-1.isdn.mke.execpc.com(169.207.65.129) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma022889; Wed Oct 21 15:58:37 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19981021155403.010d90d0@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:54:03 -0500 To: conrads@neosoft.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: This seems a little odd In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:04 PM 10/21/98 -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > >conrads@dolphin:/$ file kernel >kernel: unknown pure executable > >3.0-CURRENT, aout-to-elf upgrade from -stable on 10/19, custom aout kernel built >on 10/21 The kernel is aout that's why: kernel: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, not stripped kernel.GENERIC: unknown pure executable kernel.old: unknown pure executable not stripped The first is my elf kernel, 2nd is obvious, and kernel.old is my last tweaked aout kernel. I'm sure there is a more technical explanation, but nothing is wrong with what you see. The "not stripped" makes me wonder what happens if it is stripped, as apparently the GENERIC is. No programmer here, but do recall the need to strip certain things after compilation on BSDi. If it works.... Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking jeff@mountin.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message