If you have not rebooted since you made your last changes, you can copy the
file NMCONFIX.PUB.SYS to, say NMCFGOLD.PUB.SYS, and look at NMCFGOLD with
NMMGR to zero in on those areas you changed to compare with the current
NMCONFIG.
NMCONFIX.PUB.SYS represents the configuration file used at the most recent
bootup.
If it's not immediately obvious where the diffrences may be, you could at
least print both configuration files (NMCONFIG and NMCONFIX) to carefully
examine and compare the hard copy listings for any differences.
Nothing more automated comes to mind.
At 07:56 PM 2003-03-20, Atwood, Tim (DVM) wrote:
>Does anyone know of a way to compare two different NMCONFIG files? A simple
>file compare does not work very well since NMCONFIG has binary data in it.
>
>I am looking at the possibility something unintentional was implemented when
>I implemented some printer changes. If a change had been unintentionally
>kept by someone, but not dynamically implemented, it would have been
>implemented along with some DTC changes I made for printers.
>
>Our network problems were first noticed a few hours after I implemented the
>DTC changes.
>
>When I implement configuration changes, I always store the old config files
>including NMCONFIG into a backup group CFG<date>. So I have several old
>levels of changes to compare against. If I can figure out how to compare
>them.
>
>I suppose I could restore and old config and reboot. But then I would also
>lose the legitimate changes. Plus it would mean rebooting a critical
>production computer to try out something which is at best a
>shot-in-the-dark.
>
>So any suggestions of what I could look at short of rebooting would be
>great.
>
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