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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Unet <unet AT sourcemage.org>:
> Hello all,
> 
> Just a quick note to let you know I've finally found some time to produce a 
> decent hwd script.
> 
> It seems to work ok (tested on 3 machines), but I don't have 'exotic'
> hardware 
> underhand. Anyway, I will make some cosmetic corrections and put it in p4. 
> 
> BTW; Suggestions welcome on how to handle the mechanism: should we run the 
> script at each boot, with a /etc/sysconfig/smgl-hwd (for example) file for 
> checking new hardware or ??or??
> 
> Let me know
> 
> Cheers!

Doesn't kudzu automatically do something like checking for new hardware? I saw
that you added a kudzu package. I'd say that the install script should be
installed by a spell (kudzu?) and have an init script that can be
enabled/disabled by the user. I like the idea of storing system settings in
/etc/sysconfig, and smgl-hwd would work, but since it probably won't be typed
often, perhaps smgl-hardware or hardware-auto-detect or something?

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/

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