From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 14:30:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vapor.westin16.flyingcroc.net (vapor.westin16.flyingcroc.net [207.246.128.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A9415067 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myc@vapor.westin16.flyingcroc.net) Received: from localhost (myc@localhost) by vapor.westin16.flyingcroc.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA57197; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myc@vapor.westin16.flyingcroc.net) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:26:20 -0800 (PST) From: Mychal McGrew X-Sender: myc@vapor.westin16.flyingcroc.net To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum In-Reply-To: <19991206172532.32350@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg, Thank you. :) Regards, Mychal L. McGrew UNIX Systems Administrator Flying Crocodile, Inc. http://www.flyingcroc.com myc@nethead.com On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 6 December 1999 at 14:15:45 -0800, Mychal McGrew wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > > > > I have a question about vinum. We use vinum on a machine of ours, > > and I was wondering if there is a way to automate it to start on > > bootup. I'm not sure if there is a way, considering when you start > > vinum it opens up a temp file in vi, > > This is not correct. > > > and you have to enter data into that file. > > If all else fails, read the manual: > > RUNNING VINUM > vinum is part of the base FreeBSD system. It does not require installa- > tion. To start it, start the vinum program, which will load the kld if > it is not already present. Before using vinum, it must be configured. > See vinum(8) for information on how to create a vinum configuration. > > Normally, you start a configured version of vinum at boot time. Set the > variable start_vinum in /etc/rc.conf to YES to start vinum at boot time. > > > When you save the file, it then starts. Anyone here use vinum, and know > > how to automate it on bootup? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks, I > > appreciate it. > > You should read the following docuemnts: > > Man page vinum(4) > Man page vinum(8) > http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message