1999.01.06
What is it?
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This utility allows to gather device configuration which possibly
was changed in userconfig (-c) session, and to save it to /kernel.config
file on startup floppy, so that when user boots next time, the
settings will automatically be changed.
This program uses sysctl(3) interface to retrieve data from the kernel -
the machdep.uc_devlist sysctl was added Jan 5 1999 to 3.0-current.
How can I use it?
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The best way is to call it from /etc/rc in such phase when the startup floppy
is mounted, and redirect its output to /kernel.config on the floppy.
Usage is straightforward:
kget output_filename
where output_filename is either regular file (then it's created or
overwritten), or a "-" meaning standard output.
In simplest form you can do
kget -
to list on stdout changes from original configuration, and
kget /kernel.config
to produce list of changes from 'vanilla' configuration and write
it to /kernel.config file - it already contains required keywords.
Andrzej Bialecki
<abial@freebsd.org>
$Id: README,v 1.4 1999/01/08 21:09:42 abial Exp $
