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Appendix A. Command Line Config Management Tools 187
A.2.1. Listing Config Files
To list the configuration files for the machine and the labels of the config channels contain-
ing them, issue the command:
rhncfg-client list
The output resembles the following list:
Config Channel File
config-channel-17 /etc/example-config.txt
config-channel-17 /var/spool/aalib.rpm
config-channel-14 /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
These are the configuration files that apply to your system. However, there may be duplicate
files present in the other channels. For example, issue the following command:
rhncfg-manager list config-channel-14
and observe the following output:
Files in config channel ’config-channel-14’
/etc/example-config.txt
/etc/rhn/rhn.conf
You may then wonder where the second version of
/etc/example-config.txt
went.
The rank of the
/etc/example-config.txt
file in
config-channel-17
was higher
than that of the same file in
config-channel-14
. As a result, the version of the config-
uration file in
config-channel-14
is not deployed for this system, although the file still
resides in the channel. The
rhncfg-client
command does not list the file because it will
not be deployed on this system.
A.2.2. Getting a Config File
To download the most relevant configuration file for the machine, issue the command:
rhncfg-client get /etc/example-config.txt
You should see output resembling:
Deploying /etc/example-config.txt
You may then view the contents of the file with
less
or another pager. Note that the file
is selected as the most relevant based upon the rank of the config channel containing it.
This is accomplished within the Configuration tab of the System Details page. Refer to
Section 6.4.2.8 System Details for instructions.