Howdy, As promised, the new @freebsd version of this list has been created. Please note, the delay on this point was entirely mine, as it took me longer than...
Hi Luke, folks, The attached patch shuts up ps(1) when the program we're looking for does not exist. The error message is something along the lines of: ps:...
Hi folks, I'm not sure if the fast prefix was intended to also work with the stop command, but I think it should. The reason is because most applications don't...
Guys, All but 2 of the last 100 messages to this list were spam, and that trend is pretty consistent over time. Therefore I've changed the policy of the list...
I noticed that rc.d/ttys has a circular dependency caused by requiring mountcritremote. I can't figure out why you would need that, any ideas? Also, the whole...
Hello I have enhanced the gbde rc.d script a bit, so it asks the user X times (normally 3) for the pass-phrase. I have also added support for having the...
... Does this mean we should remove the rest of the compatibility stuff in other scripts? As you say, the NetBSD folks don't seem interested in our changes. We...
Guys, FYI, I updated mergemaster last week to detect any files in /etc/rc.d (or ${DESTDIR}/etc/rc.d if they are different) that aren't in ${TEMPROOT}/etc/rc.d,...
Hi I'd like to present some patches to teach FreeBSD to automatically configure itself depending on what network it is started in. The system depends on rcng,...
Any objections to this rc.d/diskless patch to avoid running newaliases on machines which aren't using sentmail/mailwrapper? I deliberatly duplicated the case...
Howdy, I've made some updates to rc.d/rc.diskless for use in read-only flash systems (typically Soekris, etc embedded boards). phk said I should track down...
Guys, Please see very interesting suggestions below from phk regarding ways to improve cleanvar, especially in the presence of a diskless boot. I like these...
... Hash: SHA1 Guys, There is no $gbde_autoattach_all variable in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and it's generating an error at boot time. When Garrett initially...
=================================================================== Do not kill dhclient twice. If we execute dhclient -r, dhclient gets already killed, so...
Hi, I hacked rcorder to accept a directory as a parameter instead of passing in all rc scripts on the command line with a glob. You can find this patch at...
Forwarded to the rc mailing list. Tim, do you want to weigh in on this? IIRC, it has something to do with the way NetBSD does named startup (which is in a...
Folks, In case you missed this, please check my thinking here, and let me know your opinion. I've added the option to savecore to report if there is a dump, so...
Hello, I'm having a bit of trouble with something - I'm not sure if it's possible. If so, can anyone provide some pointers? Basically I am trying to configure...
Martin, I think the work you're doing is great, just wondering if you asked to have this reviewed by anyone on the rc team before committing? Thanks, Doug ... ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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