Cheers I'll have a hunt for it-you learn something new every day, NH.
> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:23:06 -0600 (CST)
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: what is recompiling kernel ?
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Neil Hollow wrote:
>
>> yeah thats true taking stuff out you don't need-forgot about that. Thanks
>> for the interesting explanation. I don't seem to have this though what is
>> it?
>>
>>> If you have Kudzu
>>> set to run on boot, it will usualy detect the new hardware and ask you
>>> if you want to set it up. (The message in red about hitting a key
>>> with the timeout counter.)
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
>> From man kudzu:
> kudzu detects and configures new and/or changed hardware
> on a system. When started, kudzu detects the current
> hardware, and checks it against a database stored in
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, if one exists. It then determines
> if any hardware has been added or removed from the system.
> If so, it gives the users the opportunity to configure any
> added hardware, and unconfigure any removed hardware. It
> then updates the database in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.
>
> If no previous database exists, kudzu attempts to deter
> mine what devices have already been configured, by looking
> at /etc/conf.modules, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, and
> /etc/X11/XF86Config.
>
> It is installed from the kudzu-0.36-2 rpm on a 6.2 system. It is
> normaly part of the stock RedHat install. I think it was part of 6.0,
> but it was not part of the 5.x distribution.
>
> Mikkel
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