[Gllug] System Map

[tet at accucard.com]

>The correct fix is to make sure that it's being saved as for eg
>"System.map-2.4.19rc2". The boot scripts (if correctly written)
>will then start klogd with -m System.map-`uname -r`, and you'll
>always get the right version loaded.

Indeed, and ps itself will also pick it up from System.map-`uname -r`

>Some distros also used to do
>ln -sf /boot/System.map-`uname -r` /boot/System.map
>at boottime, which also does pretty much the same thing in
>an albeit uglier way.

Mentioning no names, eh? :-) FYI, they still do, at least as of 7.3.

Tet


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