How to profit by or from /etc/sysconfig in Slacware like Debian and RedHat?
I use hwsetup, hwdata, ddcxinfo, kudzu ..etc.
and I want to profit by sysconfig files genereted by them in startup scripts.

is it possible ?

profit?? you mean "make money"??

prof·it

n.

1. An advantageous gain or return; benefit.




/etc/sysconfig holds configuration files that are sourced by various scripts, namely but not limited to, bootscripts.
Now you have just gained an advantageous benifit of having inet1's config file in a more suitable SysVinit location because that's where things like this go according to Suse, Mandrake, Redhat et. all...

It's just a convience location, nothing more. Doesn't matter where you put config files, as long as they are sourced from the correct location within it's parent script.

Some programs like lm_sensors put they init scripts in sysconfig. In Slackware you need to place them in rc.d.

Thanks all.

(profit = usefulness)

That what i mean.
sorry for bad English.

My Amigo Linux uses hwsetup, ddcxinfo, and hwdata to perform an initial system setup including an fstab file and xorg.conf.
netcards, mice and CD/DVD are all setup also.
Other devices such as sound cards, etc are also detected, but my auto-setup scripts are quite conservative in what they do.

You'll find an example implementation here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...setup/Pasture/

and the sources are here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...Sources/Utils/

ddcxinfo is part of the kudzu package and you need the kudzu headers to compile hwsetup. But, they don't use the kudzu libs, and the kudzu binary is not used either.

Binary packages for hwsetup and kudzu are here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...ntelx86/Utils/

I am use Knoppix & Kanotix packages for that.
So, (1)what's difference between Amigo packages and K*ix?

(2) What about Amigo?
I see it's nice, because it's a Slackware based.
- Is it LiveCD?
- What the size of it?

No real difference in the binaries, except the main config file is renamed /etc/sysconfig/amigo. The main difference is in what gets done with the info. I don't setup everything possible by default.
/usr/lib/amigosetup/firstrun is the main script to follow.
Your fstab is built by subscripts of that.
The script mkxf86config (or mkxorgconf) uses ddcxinfo and hwdata to generate an X config file (from an .in file using sed).

No distros are available on the Amigo site right now, though you can find some on a mirror, such as here:
http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/Linux/d...inux/download/

About 3 years ago .. and I still need it.