config info location in Mandrake

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:

> Feigning erudition, Bill Campbell wrote:
> % 
> % Not offhand, having only run Mandrake 8.2 for a couple of days, but the way
> % I usually find things like this is to touch a file, make a change using the
> % vendor's GUI, then run find to get anything newer than the touched file:
> % 
> % 	touch /tmp/timestamp
> % 	# edit using GUI
> % 	find / -xdev -type f -newer /tmp/timestamp
> 
> Say, now *there's* a handy guru trick!
> 
> Kurt


AFAIC, this is one of the best reasons to be on this list.  All sorts of 
guru gems get bandied about.


To Bill, I've done different permutations of find and grep with no luck so 
far.  I've keyed in on using ESSID and am trying understand how ifup gets 
the parameter to pass to iwconfig.  But I still don't know where ifup gets 
those parameters from.