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Subject: Re: Detecting hardware with Ruby
From: Jamis Buck <jgb3 () email ! byu ! edu>
Date: 2004-03-25 17:23:23
Message-ID: 4062FBEC.8090908 () email ! byu ! edu
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Jason Voegele wrote:
> I solved this problem by using init scripts. I have two init scripts
> called setup_home and setup_work. These scripts copy alternate versions
> of configuration files depending on whether I'm at work (attached to
> external monitor, keyboard, etc.) or at "home" (unattached laptop). I
> have one of these two scripts start depending on the runlevel. I can then
> choose a run level at boot time, which is very easy with GRUB, and these
> scripts will choose the right settings for me.
Ah, much nicer. I've got a custom runlevel already for booting without
X--don't know why it didn't occur to me to do this for booting with a
different X server layout. Thanks, Jason! This will do nicely.
I may still try to experiment with the hardware detection route... just
for fun... ;)
--
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis
ruby -h | ruby -e
'a=[];readlines.join.scan(/-(.)\[e|Kk(\S*)|le.l(..)e|#!(\S*)/) {|r| a <<
r.compact.first };puts "\n>#{a.join(%q/ /)}<\n\n"'
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