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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
... Do you have a more specific example for me to look at? :-)...
Luke Mewburn
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Jan 23, 2003 6:01 am
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:01:45 +1100 ... The only one I can remember is amd, but I just took a peek at the NetBSD cvs repo and it's been fixed since our last...
... Cool, go for it then. Thanks, Doug -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's...
Can I assume there's no objections to this, either? On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 02:17:24 -0500 ... -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc ...
... None here. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W....
Looks reasonable. If no objections, Go. M ... s ... if ... 8B9 ... -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH...
Mark Murray
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Jan 25, 2003 9:35 am
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Go for it! M ... 8B9 ... -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH...
Mark Murray
mark@...
Jan 25, 2003 9:35 am
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Who else has tested thios? M ... ipt ... ric ... ts ... t ... SE ... AL ... CT ... Y ... z amd \ ... \ ... \ ... \ ... \ ... \ ... \ ... \ ... \ ... \ ... \ ...
Mark Murray
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Jan 25, 2003 9:35 am
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... I'm a little confused as to why we need a seperate rc.subr just for network stuff. Can you explain more about your motivation for splitting it out? Doug...