config info location in Mandrake

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:31:50PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote:
>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!

I can't tell you how many times I've used that to figure out what changes
when some program's been run.  The ``lsof'' program is also useful, but
sometimes it's difficult to catch things at the exact moment.

>> 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.

On Caldera systems, it gets it from files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts,
one per interface.

If you know the IP address assigned, (and it's not being assigned by dhcp),
you can usually find things like that using (the -follow isn't usually
necessary, but is handy on things like SCO OpenServer with its symlink hell
:-).

	find /etc -follow -type f | xargs grep -l $ipaddress

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