RE: Forgive the rant...but

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Brian Long wrote:

> >  Anyone know of a way
> > to detect when a new kernel is booting for the first time. Is so, then the
> > script could be chkconfig'ed back on.
>
> We use strings on the nvidia.o on each boot (we never chkconfig off our
> init script).  It looks for kernel_version and if that string does not
> match the booting kernel, it recompiles nvidia.o.

Feel like sharing with the rest of the class?

-n
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