From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 27 12:03:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16059 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15911 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:03:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nash@Venus.mcs.net) Received: from Venus.mcs.net (nash@Venus.mcs.net [192.160.127.92]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id OAA19193; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:02:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nash@localhost) by Venus.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) id OAA09753; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:02:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980727140238.12123@mcs.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:02:38 -0500 From: Alex Nash To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checking RAM References: <35BC9088.D189FAEF@csl.com> <199807271745.KAA25470@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199807271745.KAA25470@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 10:45:50AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 10:45:50AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > I suppose that one way to do a hack that could be adequate for a trial > run would be to have /etc/rc run a script that would run "dmesg" & parse > it, then stuff the results of this parsing into a file that could be > read by a process running under effective GID "operator". > > The objective would be to record enough information that given the > (properly-interpreted) content of the file in question, it would be > possible to specify the components to re-construct the machine in > question. Will /var/run/dmesg.boot do? :) Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message