<quote who="Angus Lees"> > .. i don't get it. > > kill is built into bash.. > > "kill -INT 1" should be equivalent to ctrl-alt-del on the console, and > shouldn't actually need to spawn another process.
Tried that, never worked. > (and whats this "kernel is too old" huff?) Well, there's the full spiel... :) There's a decommissioned Cobalt mipsel machine sitting on a rack far, far away. I decide to play Debian games on it, and run various things in a chroot. Works nicely. Then I decide it's time to replace that crazy, old, hive-inducing, fishmonger of an OS that they come with (it's a very, very old Red Hat derivative, but they've screwed the pooch on so many counts)... There's a mispel filesystem image and kernel available here: http://www.transvirtual.com/~jsimmons/debian-cobalt/ So, without much thought (the box was no longer in use), I cp -a the entire uncompressed filesystem to /, thinking a quick reboot would have me in a brand new Debian setup (albeit with a lot of mess around it). Unfortunately, it just landed me with a root bash prompt. Any attempt to execute *anything* would return with "FATAL: kernel too old". I've never seen that before; I'm assuming it's from glibc? Anyway, that's how I got myself into the pickle. Not sure as to whether the box is back up or booted yet, too much festivity going on between times. Crazy. :) - Jeff -- Grind'n'wink. That is all. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
