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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] finding out current softlevel
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:58:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008101458.53669.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100810144202.GA3540@laptop.gs>

linux@gabriel-striewe.de writes:

> I was wondering whether there is some way to find out the current
> running softlevel (which I gave to the kernel line in grub's
> menu.lst), for example to start another window manager depending on
> the softlevel or whatever other possible solutions? Maybe in a
> variable like $SOFTLEVEL ?

At least you can get the complete kernel line from /proc/cmdline.

If you like, put something like this into your .bashrc:

# get boot parameters:
SOFTLEVEL=$( < /proc/cmdline )
# strip from left all up to and including 'softlevel=':
SOFTLEVEL=${SOFTLEVEL##*softlevel=}
# strip from the right all from the first blank on:
SOFTLEVEL=${SOFTLEVEL%% *}           # strip all

Oh, or forget about all this, as I just see that there is the rc-status -r 
command.

	Wonko



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-10 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-10 14:42 [gentoo-user] finding out current softlevel linux
2010-08-10 12:58 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2010-08-10 14:01   ` linux
2010-08-10 13:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-10 13:27 ` Neil Bothwick

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