Jon Nelson on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:47:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Playing with Fire?


Jason Wertz said:
> I may have asked this question before on the list but related to this
> topic...is there a utility that will take a compiled kernel (say
> compiled by a previous sys-admin who didn't bother to save there .config
> files) and tell you all of the configuration options used to compile
> that kernel?

That's basically what 'make oldconfig' does.  Then when you load it into
xconfig you can see what was previously selected.


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Trooper Jon S. Nelson, Linux Certified Admin.
Pa. State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Computer Crimes Unit
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