Hi Luke, all Ok I think we're ready to submit some of our modifications back to NetBSD. The one included with this email concerns diagnostic messages. First,...
Mike Makonnen
makonnen@...
Sep 3, 2002 7:16 pm
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... Hi Mike. It looks fairly good, although I have a couple of comments * debug() shouldn't read /etc/rc.conf each time it's called; non of the other "need...
Luke Mewburn
lukem@...
Sep 12, 2002 7:32 am
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... Gah! That's what's been driving me nuts, I was wondering what kept sourceing /etc/rc.conf. I'm probably going to commit this soon as it'll save on shell ...
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:32:38 +1000 ... I did that in case any of the scripts wanted to use it before load_rc_config, but I think it can go. Besides, like...
Mike Makonnen
makonnen@...
Sep 12, 2002 5:26 pm
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Hi, I'm slowly porting some local rc scripts we've been using for a few years on -STABLE to rc_ng and -CURRENT. Some of them may be useful to others, and I'd...
Lars Eggert
larse@...
Sep 16, 2002 10:04 pm
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What version of FreeBSD supports IDE tape drives? I am currently running 4.2. I have been able to get the tape drive to work with Redhat 7.3 but not BSD 4.2 ...
Gregory Dunham
gregsdunham@...
Sep 26, 2002 5:46 am
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... You'll want to send that question to freebsd-questions@.... Good luck, Doug...
... I've put the latest revisions of our scripts up at http://www.isi.edu/larse/etc.html. Lars -- Lars Eggert <larse@...> USC Information...
Lars Eggert
larse@...
Oct 1, 2002 6:41 pm
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Hi all, Wanted freebsd Developers, visit www.techieindex.net providing one stop resource for IT Professionals. If you find similar site let me know. seriena...
serienabecker
serienabecker@...
Oct 9, 2002 7:53 pm
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Hi all, Wanted freebsd Developers, visit www.techieindex.net providing one stop resource for IT Professionals. If you find similar site let me know. seriena...
I'm including the yahoo! group for this... lots of smart people there too. ... I'm a little skeptical about this idea... what happens if this daemon crashes?...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Nov 26, 2002 8:38 am
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... Well, that's a good question. I hadn't really thought about that, but I could use the guard script for that. I don't like the idea of using the guard...
Mike Makonnen
mtm@...
Dec 2, 2002 4:25 am
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... +++ devfs Sat Dec 14 14:03:49 2002 @@ -15,5 +15,6 @@ # Setup DEVFS, ie permissions, links etc. # -ln -fs /dev/ttyv0 /dev/vga - +if [ -r /etc/rc.devfs ];...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Dec 14, 2002 10:11 pm
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This is good stuff Geoffrey.... we may just "borrow" it. :) I know you'ved saved me some work personally, as playing with gdbe is high on my list of things to...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Jan 12, 2003 4:43 am
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Guys, I was reading this month's SysAdmin magazine, and came across this article about Bootprofile for Linux. You can find more info at ...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Jan 17, 2003 8:47 am
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... NetBSD has a configuration manager iirc, src/etc/rc.d/bootconf.sh I'm not entirely sure how it works, but it might worth looking at. -gordon...
... Take a careful look at the diskless support already in the FreeBSD tree (which works something like BootProfile: copies stuff from /conf/etc/* to /etc/ ...
... Yeah, diskless is one area where I think copying is a necessary kludge. But, in this situation there is no media to corrupt, and have to try and fix later....
Hi guys, I'd like to commit the following patch, which is phase 1 of the network script rewrite. It creates a new file /etc/rc_network.subr that contains some...
... While you are in there; PPP gets started before ISDN. This is a problem if you use PPP over ISDN like I do. Is there an easy way to fix this? I'll test if...
Mark Murray
mark@...
Jan 19, 2003 9:50 pm
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:47:30 +0000 ... Patch attached. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@... | Fingerprint:...
This sounds logical. It is also how rc.network did it. Maybe the NetBSD guys can shed some light on why it's done so late in the boot process. Anyways, if...
This email addresses two issues: 1) Getting rid of the monolithic rc* scripts 2) A proper policy on deprecating rc.d scripts and functionality I would like to...
... Regarding the second point: On NetBSD I implemented a program called "postinstall" (src/etc/postinstall) which does a variety of checks on a given...
Luke Mewburn
luke@...
Jan 20, 2003 12:27 am
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:27:46 +1100 ... I like the concept, and if no one looks into it I'll try when I have some time. However, it still requires user...
There are a few scripts that use variables from rc.conf before calling load_rc_config(). This doesn't matter when you're booting because the variables will be...
... Sounds like a good plan to me. Luke, were there hysterical raisins for the existing behavior? Doug -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown...
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