On Mon, 8 May 2000, Joanne Treurniet wrote:
> I found while trying to install some software meant for uni-processor
> machines (OSS) that the secure kernel defaults to SMP on. So I did the ol'
> xconfig; make dep; make bzImage; make bzlilo with the SMP option off,
> rebooted and it was still SMP.
Did you install the kernel? As in, copy System.map and bzImage to /boot
and update the symlinks? And update lilo? If not, well, just compiling a
kernel and rebooting will not get you running on your new kernel.
> I gather from the above that the secure kernel comes precompiled only, with
> SMP on and no source, so you cannot make any changes. Is there a patch to
> the un-secured kernel to deal with the buffer-overflow attacks, so that I
> can configure the kernel to my system? Any advice would be appreciated.
I suppose you might poke around linux-mandrake.com or your /usr/doc
directory for information on which patches they applied to make their
"secure" kernel. If you don't find something, e-mail some developers
directly. I know their addresses are available on the Mandrake web site.
-Matt Stegman
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