Re: MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Derrik Pates writes: > If you're using the debs already, it's sort of surprising someone > hasn't included an init script to invoke 'startmol --loadonly' > during boot, to avert just this kind of situation... I have investigated the situation, and it appears that for recent kernels (2.4.8 an

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Derrik Pates writes: > If you're using the debs already, it's sort of surprising someone hasn't > included an init script to invoke 'startmol --loadonly' during boot, to > avert just this kind of situation... I find it more surprising that nobody has filed a wishlist bug against mol asking f

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-06 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > OK, but this way you let the mol module "sleeping" in the kernel... Yeah, so? On this iBook it shows as a 42KB module (I load it at boot). sheep_net is ~ 5KB. That's really the only way to reliably run MoL without having to become root to load the module

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-06 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > I can start mol as root (sudo startmol) but not as a lambda user. > > I bet if you started it once as root, then started it again as a normal > user, it'd work. sure, as startmol insmod his module, when quitti

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-04 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > I can start mol as root (sudo startmol) but not as a lambda user. I bet if you started it once as root, then started it again as a normal user, it'd work. > I don't understand, because while browsing this list archive, I've seen > several posts claiming

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-04 Thread mike
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 12:10, Eric Deveaud wrote: > I can start mol as root (sudo startmol) but not as a lambda user. I could be totally wrong, but I believe that this is the only way to start MOL. I think it has to do with the fact that a) MOL wants to load its modules by itself and b) it wants t

MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-04 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, today was a compil and setting day, but I'm stumped with a MOL problem. - rsynced BenH kernel tree (2.4.17-ben0) and freshly compiled uname -rv gives me 2.4.17-ben0 #2 Fri Jan 4 13:38:08 CET 2002 2) get and compiled from sources mol-0.9.60 added -DEXPORT_SYMTAB to kernel_