Messages in this thread |  | | From | Systemkennung Linux <> | Subject | Re: A couple "normal user" questions.. | Date | Sun, 2 Feb 1997 16:09:51 +0100 (MET) |
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> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > > I don't want 8K of my kernel wasted because I can't remember to save config > > files. > > I have a discovered a way to store the configuration, which only requires > 16 bytes (32 if stored in ascii). This could be appended to the output of > 'uname -v' > > $ sed -n 's/CONFIG_\(.*\)=y/\1/p' .config | md5sum > 6d1565d41a236978dfc1622d9e00fb3b
Modifying the output of uname is no good idea as too many programs depend on it. Aside it looks ugly and /proc is the better place for something like that.
On the other side this appoach would help so solve several other issues. Among them updating /etc/psdatabase and /etc/psdevtab such that they fit the running kernel.
> I must admit, I haven't developed the program to reverse the operation :-)
Can you make a cow of a hamburger ?-)
Ralf
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