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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2000 18:31:32 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Damian Gerow <dgerow@mad.scientist.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proc size mismatch
Message-ID:  <20000523183132.P28097@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <381802713.959127895147.JavaMail.root@web421-mc.mail.com>; from dgerow@mad.scientist.com on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 08:24:55PM -0400
References:  <381802713.959127895147.JavaMail.root@web421-mc.mail.com>

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* Damian Gerow <dgerow@mad.scientist.com> [000523 17:59] wrote:
> If I have sent this to the wrong list (i.e. it should have gone to
> freebsd-newbies), I apologize.  I am not clear on which list this should go
> to, as I am still a FreeBSD newbie (although I know Linux fairly well, so
> I've got a fairly good start).
> 
> I am installing 4.0-RELEASE as a firewall, and am having some problems with
> my kernel and the proc filesystem.  I have enabled FFS, FFS_ROOT, KERNFS,
> and PROCFS in the configuration files, but whenever I try to read a file
> from the /proc filesystem, I get a "proc size mismatch" error (the exact
> sizes I don't recall).  Should there be another filesystem enabled?  I'm
> running an IDE system on a P150 with 16MB of RAM, some old 512K video card,
> no floppy ir CD-ROM, and an NE2000 compat card (ed0) and Intel EtherExpress
> Pro/100 card (fxp0) for network.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could help me out on this.  If it is requesteed
> that I post my conf file, I will.  Thanks - it's really been giving me
> grief.

This usually means you've upgraded your kernel source and compiled
and installed without updating your userland.

what does 'uname -a' say?  and have you read:
 http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html

?

-Alfred


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