Mike Andrew babbled on about: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 03:01, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > copy it to /boot and append the kernel version to it.. > > i.e /boot/System.map-2.4.14 > > My current 'method' is a permanent > > cd /boot > rm System.map > ln -s /usr/src/linux/System.map System.map > > this assumes that /usr/src/linux is itself a symlink to the current kernel > (not always the case). > > there was a post sometime earlier that if you had a series of > > /boot/System.map-2.4.xx's > > the kernel would 'discover' for itself which one to use. Is this correct? > David Bandel mentions the klogd daemon starting early in the boot scripts. > Is the name 'System.map' with no extensions a necessity for some other, > obscure, applications?
your method should work fine. IIRC, the kernel looks for System.map-`uname -r` first and then System.map (first in /boot, then in /usr/src/linux You can mdify this by playing with the klogd command line options in /etc/rc.d as David stated. the only other thing that uses the System.map file is a kernel debugger, or ksymoops (which decodes a kernel panic). And they should follow the same kernel conventions (above). In reality, you can run without a System.map without any significant adverse affects. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net The software said it requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
