Re: a bit of a newbie question on the linux database.

[Elton Woo]

On September 4, 2003 04:50 pm, Alan Cox Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > I was searching the system for a *.db file, but I guess I'm
> way off
>  > course.... *Where* does one find the database of available printers,
>  > mice, monitors, etd. that redhat-config-* uses?
>
>  Various places like kudzu and foomatic.
>
>  A neat trick btw (and I admit better docs would be a much neater trick!)
>  is
>
>  	strace -eopen appname
>
>  and it will list the files it opens 
 More to the point, I wanted to make a hardcopy
print the hardware list.

TIA,

Elton ;-)

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