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Re: Security Question - .config



On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Alvin Oga wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:54:27AM -0800, John Gedeon wrote:
> > > I had another question that is related to my IT guys response:
> > >    When I compiled their vpn client, it was looking for modversions.h
> > > which I found you had to run make old-config (not sure of exact command) to
> > > get the source to generate that file.
> >
> > 'make dep' is enough, I think.
>
> think you might wanna try
> 	cd /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.19
> 	mv .config .config.xxx
> 	make oldconfig   ( should be your current kernel's config )
> 	make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo ... blah
>
> c ya
> alvin

He's compiling a VPN client, not the kernel though.

Mike



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