Hi everyone I am proud to announce my first prototype of a solution to our boot profile idea. Features: 1) non-users are not effected at all 2) once...
... Bah. Add a prerequisites field to fstab with all the filesystems that must be mounted before that one can be mounted. Then just teach mountlocal and...
... That's not enough. I have filesystems I don't want fscked/mounted until after sshd will accept my login for instance (I hate waiting for a fsck of ...
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk@...
Jul 10, 2003 8:32 pm
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... I should have waited a bit before replying (after all, the message was from 22th last month anyway). Your next reply on the thread enlightened me to the...
Hi We have a reqt for an MNC in Bangalore for Sr. Free BSD System Administrator 4+ yrs Unix Administration with emphasis on FreeBSD Specifics.... Kindly revert...
mahalakshmi
mahalakshmi@...
Jul 19, 2003 9:24 am
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Does anyone have any objections to renaming this file. The original name was really a mistake since /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts can (and usually do) start more...
Are there any other files that you plan to rename? I think that we'll have a better perception in both the user and developer communities if we present a...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Jul 31, 2003 7:48 am
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... This is the last one. I'm doing this now before 5.2 specifically to avoid living with such mistakes for an entire RELENG cycle. I haven't actually cvs...
... Ok, sounds good then, thanks. :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Jul 31, 2003 6:20 pm
308
i just managed to get an sh coredump with an rc.d/ script of mine. either there is a bug in rc.subr or i am doing things wrongly. in any way, i need some help....
... using sh doesn't make a difference here. does my test script work for you?...
Tobias Roth
roth@...
Aug 11, 2003 7:28 am
317
On my network booted cluster, I've found it useful to be able to set the hostname of the machine using a file similar to /etc/nodename in Solaris. The...
... Before I got excited about this patch, I'd like to hear more about why that mechanism works better for you than editing the variable in /etc/rc.conf.local....
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Aug 13, 2003 2:31 am
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FYI, I'm forwarding this, slightly edited, with permission. I want to make y'all aware of this issue, especially since some of you are responsible for some of...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Aug 13, 2003 3:41 am
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... Hmm, rc.conf.local might be a solution. The nice thing about this is that I can have a single rc.conf and when I'm generating /conf/<ip>/etc directories I...
... rc.conf.local is designed for precisely this purpose. :) The following: echo "hostname=\"${foo}.example.com\"" >> rc.conf.local Is only slightly more...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Aug 13, 2003 5:41 pm
322
... This significantly increases the complexity of my /conf generation scripts. Currently, most hosts have an easily generated host name based on their IP...
... I have to confess, I don't quite understand the paragraph above. If you can generate a file called foo that has the hostname in it, and then not overwrite...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Aug 13, 2003 7:32 pm
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... If rc.conf.local had other variables in, I'd basically have to generate it from scratch every time I ran the script since that's how new variables would be...
... Just as an observation, the last entry in rc.conf wins, so you could just append new entries to it. (On the overall issue, I have no preference either...
... Sounds like a fine idea to me. On the other hand, if you get too much resistance, you could simply take advantage of the fact that the entire rcNG system...
... rc.subr is not guaranteed to be recursion friendly....
Luke Mewburn
lukem@...
Aug 14, 2003 1:28 am
328
... NetBSD has supported /etc/myname for a *long* time (over 10 years). rc.conf(5)'s $hostname overrides it. If you're going to reinvent the wheel, you might...
Luke Mewburn
lukem@...
Aug 14, 2003 1:33 am
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... Adding: hostname="/etc/myname" to /etc/defaults/rc.conf after applying my patch would do exactly that as well as allowing users to be compatable with...
... Lars already covered this. ... Glad to help push you in the right direction. :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection...
Doug Barton
DougB@...
Aug 14, 2003 6:53 am
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I'm forwarding this to freebsd-rc. I can't think of an easy way this could be done. Maybe someone there will have an answer. ... Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003...
... Ruslan, I had a big fight with Luke Mewburn and others about this issue. The short answer is: NO. If the knob is turned off, the rc.d script becomes a...
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