All I can say here is that the link did not exist after my Red Hat 5.2 install
and that it must be a Red Hat 5.2 bug. I certainly did not move or delete the
System.map link since my install.
On 08-Feb-99 Richard Adams wrote:
> According to Tom Savage: While burning my CPU.
>>
>> In the original message I said that I could not find the file "System.map"
>> anywhere. So I made a link in /boot called System.map linked to
>> System.map-2.0.36-0.7 . After that everything was ok.
>> It look like this:
>> [root@tim-annex2-port1 /boot]# ls -l Sys*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 7 10:54 System.map ->
>> System.map-2.0.36-0.7
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105911 Oct 13 22:41 System.map-2.0.36-0.7
>
> A normal Redhat install "links" its System.map-version_number to
> "System.map" during the install, or it should.
>
> Syslog will not find System.map in / /boot or /usr/src/linux if it is called
> anything other than "System.map". Hence the symlink with Redhat.
>
> In another message about System.map a few days ago i wrote and said that
> System.map was only used for debugging perpourses, now i completly forgot
> about Syslog, i must appolagise for that.
>
> Now the reason i say leave System.map where it is after making a new kernel
> is that i remove the symlink in /boot because i keep experimenting with
> different kernel versions, this can be a pain in the rear-end everytime you
> boot because of different module versions being detected.
>
> If no System.map is found in /boot or / then Syslog looks into
> /usr/src/linux, now the linux directory is normaly a symlink in /usr/src
> pointing to the directory where the sorce is for that particular kernel
> version.
>
> That way there are no more problems with;
>
> 1) copying System.map evrytime to /boot or where ever.
> 2) Undefined symbols with modules.
>
> Last but not least its "less work".
>
> On another note, redhat 5.1 sysv initscripts had some problems with an rc
> file which did symbolic linking in the /boot directory for the kernel
> version being booted, are you using redhat 5.1 by any chance.??
>
> As far as i know there are no problems with Redhat 5.2 and sysv init
> scripts.
>
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>> Date: 08-Feb-99
>> Time: 10:19:35
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