Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:24:58 +0100 | Subject | Re: your linux getconfiguration script posted to kernel list |
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On 19 Mar 96 at 13:08, Conor Cunningham wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I liked your configuration script idea - however, I can imagine people > posting these long lists of useless things to the kernel list, so I'll > make an immediate suggestion to make it not-quite-so-long:
Well the script was never tested; in fact I just hacked in the lines to the mail editor.
Making the out put shorter, you could also pipe it through gzip and uuencode, but that's not a good idea, because it makes reading a bit harder.
> > for the .config, filter out all of the lines starting with "#", ie > instead of just cat .config use grep -v "^#" .config to compact the > information.
Could be added (if I only had the source code). You're definitely right. Maybe awk can make a multi-column list out of this.
> > Eventually, it would be very cool to be able to automagically determine > the current binutils version, for example, and perhaps do some > context-sensitive reporting - ie my CPU info is usually only marginally > important to a lot of the posted problems.
Sometimes it's important if its a 386, 486, Pentium, Multiprocessor, ...
> > In any event, I don't mean to in any way not to sound thankful for the > script - I hope this helps make it a bit better ;)
Well if Linus really wants to add such a script, and someone can mail it back to me, I'd be glad to work on it (playing maintainer). I feel I can do it.
> > Thanks > > Conor > ------------ Ulrich Windl Klinikum der Universitaet Regensburg Rechenzentrum DV-med Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11 Tel: +49 941 944-5879 D-93053 Regensburg FAX: +49 941 944-5882 Just imagine my mail address were <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni.r.de>...
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