lost kernels and other questions

From: Becki S Kain <bkain1_at_ford.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:39:00 -0500

Hello:

I had a call last night from someone, on a 3.2c system, alpha station 1000 (I
think) had done a rm /*. As far as I could tell, what he had lost was
genvmunix, vmunix, the links to bin, lib, sys, and var, and DXsession. He
remade the four links, doconfig'ed a new kernel, and moved it to /. We checked
all the permissions on root. I had him ftp from my 3.2c system (although it
was 3000/600) my genvmunix. When he rebooted the machine, it said that it
couldn't find osfbootstrap code.

1. what did I miss?

2. can you use genvmunix from one 3.2c box to another (of different
architecture?) (maybe a dumb question, sorry)

3. how can you tell from what configuration file a kernel is built (besides
just doing a strings?)

on an unrelated question, I want to, because of running Netscape servers,
remove the automatic deletion of old files and set the machine up to delete
files in /tmp on reboot. besides doing a rm -r, does anyone know of anything
that needs to be there?

thanks

becki kain


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Becki Kain		bkain1_at_ford.com	
(313) 390-3217
Received on Thu Nov 07 1996 - 16:46:15 NZDT

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