Re: wierd

Subject: Re: wierd
From: Dallas Blair (dabla@together.net)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 15:47:01 MDT

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Hello,

Maybe you might want to do an 'su' and enter your root password and
do a 'startmol'. That seems to be at least part of the problem.

Dallas

>I am sorry....but this doesn't work for me :(
>I get the following message -
>
>[bpg@dream bpg]$ startmol
>Using MOL library directory /usr/lib/mol
>Trying to load the Mac-on-Linux kernel module.
>
>The Mac-on-Linux kernel module is not loaded. Please run 'startmol' as root
>[bpg@dream bpg]$
>
>Here is what I exactly did --
>
>downloaded new kernel source (2.2.14)
>successfully applied mol patch (mol-kernel-2.2.15pre4.patch)
>compiled the kernel with MOL support
>made the following changes to my "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" file
> insmod -f /usr/lib/mol/modules/mol.o
> insmod -f /usr/lib/mol/modules/sheep_net.o
> chmod 755 rc.local
> cd /etc/rc2.d
> ln -s ../rc.d/rc.local S99local
> cd ../rc3.d
> ln -s ../rc.d/rc.local S99local
> cd ../rc5.d
> ln -s ../rc.d/rc.local S99local
>
>Any guess what I might be doing wrong? Thanx a lot!
>Bhagwati
>
>
>"Michael A. Peters" wrote:
>
>> Two things have to work for mol. Fiest, the kernel needs to be
>> patched (which it can do "on the fly" as you start mol, and secondly-
>> two mol-specifics modules need to load.
>>
>> Both of those require root privilidge. Once they are done, they are
>> done, hence no need to be root to restart mol.
>>
>> For the first- you can patch your kernel with the mol patch and
>> rebuild it, so that it no longer needs to be patched "on the fly" by
>> MOL any more.
>>
>> For the second, you can load the two mol modules in a startup script
>> (such as /etc/init.d/local or /etc/rc.d/rc.local depending upon who's
>> linux you run) and then you will no longer need to be root to start
>> mol.
>>
>> I have instructions at http://216.22.163.20/Linux_Pages/mol.shtml

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