In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:16:28PM +0100, David Malone wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> > So, does anyone know how to use the basic unix tools to find >> > the offset of a string in a binary file ? >> > Specifically, I would like to locate the offset of the string >> > >> > "MFS Filesystem goes here" >> >> Would grep -b do what you want? > >no, as i said in my email, it returns the offset of the "line", >so after it finds the string it goes back to the first newline >and returns the offset of the character after that. :(
Luigi, get in touch with W Gerald Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, he has patches which does this by objcopy'ing the binary file to an elf-object and then linking that with the kernel. This is far superior to "overwrite the binary kernel" approach. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
