a bit of a newbie question on the linux database.

[Elton Woo]

On September 4, 2003 04:50 pm, Alan Cox Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> 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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