RE: /proc file system
"Ridgeway, Alan" <[email protected]>
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>Delete the wrong registry key and your machine is hosed, and GOOD LUCK figuring out how to put it back if you didn't write it down first... Being an experience registry manipulator, you should do the following: This assumes regedit (not regedt32) Click on the reg key you are to delete. Go to "Registry", "Export Registry file" This will save a text file of the key and the values. So if you need to recreate it you can manually enter it back in. Or if you want to automatically put it back in, make the extension.reg and double click. That will write it back in. OK I sorry I went off topic for this list. But I felt compelled to help. Alan -----Original Message----- From: Chris Knadle [mailto:Chris.Knadle-15hjz6xD4c1Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Annoyances] /proc file system Hey, guys. > >you have to read the kernel source code to figure what it does. There are a number of things in /proc that I've been able to figure out what they do, even though I've never read kernel source for it. There are others (directories with just numbers in them) that I'm just plain clueless about. Lots of Unix machines have this same issue, and it's not a problem specific to Linux. It's not something new users will often have to handle. > Or you can Google your way to answer. > This has worked for me. Somebody has to have the answer and make that answer available on the web for Google to have it in the first place... but once it's there, then yes, this works. The only problem is if everybody took this attitude, after which time there wouldn't be any answers to search for anymore. > Also I find that /proc is mush easier to understand then the Windows > Registry. Items in /proc make sense to me. The windows registry - *sigh* I'll pass. Yeah, /proc is a lot more understandable than the registry, even without looking at kernel source at all, NOR doing a google search... > The point I am making is the registry keeps information buried deep and > scattered. /proc tends to be simpler and direct. I find this easier then > the Windows Registry. Even worse: the registry entires themselves are in directories that are just not human readable and get down to information that looks arbitrary. Delete the wrong registry key and your machine is hosed, and GOOD LUCK figuring out how to put it back if you didn't write it down first... And, naturally, there's tons of time to write them down because there just aren't that many registry keys, right? *ahem* Nevermind... - Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle-15hjz6xD4c1Wk0Htik3J/[email protected] _______________________________________________ annoyances mailing list [email protected] http://michelangelo.renaissoft.com/mailman/listinfo/annoyances