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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:20:01
Message-Id: 43A855CE.2010205@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc by reader@newsguy.com
1 reader@×××××××.com wrote:
2
3 >I've diddled around with the .config file in /usr/src/linux so much
4 >with going thru fake menuconfig, renaming and etc that I'm not sure
5 >anymore what I have running.
6 >
7 >I'm pretty sure I selected to have access to kernel config from
8 >running kernel but now can't remember where or how to access it.
9 >
10 >I believe it was somewhere under /proc.
11 >
12 >Running find with such things as -iname '*config*' or
13 >-iname '*kernel*' hasn't tured up anthing interesting.
14 >
15 >If I am running a kernel with that option set how is the config
16 >accessed?
17 >
18 >
19 >
20 > /proc/config.gz
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22
23 That one?
24
25 Dale
26 :-)
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30 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
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32 I have four rigs:
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34 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
35 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
36 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.
37 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.
38
39 All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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