Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:49:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: MICHAEL@one.com.au, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: kernels Message-ID: <19981028144959.Q25247@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810280022.KAA12332@gw.one.com.au>; from MICHAEL@one.com.au on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:22:34AM %2B1000 References: <199810280022.KAA12332@gw.one.com.au>
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On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 10:22:34 +1000, MICHAEL@one.com.au wrote: > > Is it possible to extract a kernels configuration file ( ie its source ), from > the built kernel. Yes, if it has been built with the INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE option. I don't believe any standard kernel is built this way, but you could do it yourself. > If so, what is the command that allows one to do this. >From /sys/i386/config/LINT: # This allows you to actually store this configuration file into # the kernel binary itself, where it may be later read by saying: # strings -aout -n 3 /kernel | grep ^___ | sed -e 's/^___//' > MYKERNEL # options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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