Re: Dosemu ?

Greg Madden wrote:
> I have found a solution, of sorts, as to why Dosemu does not run on 2.6.12
> + kernels, basically anything after Debian Sarge. It seems that 2.6.12
> the kernel folks added 'radomization_va_space' . This breaks dosemu
> v.1.2.x and some other programs. The workaround for the v.1.2.x series is
> to enter, as root, at a comand line of choice,:
> 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space'. Dosemu now works in
> Debian Etch...yea :-)
>
> A question is involved though, the command has to be entered each time the
> box is started. How would I automate the process of entering this
> command ? Be verbose.

Couldn't you just make a small script with that command and have it run
in rc.local?

> ps, I have no idea what randomization_va_space is or how it works, which
> is okay for me as long as the command does the trick.

Here is an interesting read about it: http://lwn.net/Articles/121845/

Jon

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Received on Wed Jan 11 12:41:13 2006