What is 'Red Hat nash' in the boot sequence ???

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:38:49AM -0700, Reg Clemens wrote:
> 
> What is the item 'Red Hat nash' that prints in the (early) boot
> seqence right after the 'Audit( ... )' line.
> 
> For that matter, what is the 'AUDIT( ... )' line???
> 
> And where do I find the source code for either/both?

     $ locate nash
     /usr/share/man/man8/nash.8.gz
     /sbin/nash
     $ rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/nash
     mkinitrd-3.5.22-1

This tells me that nash is part of the mkinitrd package
and that it has a man page for documentation.

     man nash

As for source once you know the package name you can
use up2date to fetch the source.

     # up2date --get-source mkinitrd
     .... minor edits for space....
     Fetching all package list for channel: fedora...
     ...
     Fetching all package list for channel: updates...
     ....
     Fetching http:...
     ########################################

     mkinitrd-3.5.22-1.src.rpm...
     ########################################

Now I have mkinitrd-3.5.22-1.src.rpm in /var/spool/up2date and I can
install it.  I can also do all the other rpm tricks.  

If you are just looking to see the code and what it does rpm2cpio is
handy and does not require a root account.

This  "up2date --get-source " is an important function, read the GPL.
Yum users should note this...


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