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From: Rumen Yotov <gentoo@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:12:58
Message-Id: 20051220210110.GA20865@mach.qrypto.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc by reader@newsguy.com
1 Hi,
2 On (20/12/05 12:37), reader@×××××××.com wrote:
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 Check with: zcat /proc/config.gz.
12 But this will work only if this option was activated in kernel.
13 >
14 > Running find with such things as -iname '*config*' or
15 > -iname '*kernel*' hasn't tured up anthing interesting.
16 >
17 > If I am running a kernel with that option set how is the config
18 > accessed?
19 >
20 > --
21 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
22 >
23 HTH.Rumen

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