Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:53:46 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: proposed minimum change to rc.conf Message-ID: <199803161453.PAA20197@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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One way (perhaps not the only one) to tell a diskless machine is that hostname is set by the BOOTP stuff before /etc/rc starts. As it is now, I can put most machine-dependent stuff in /etc/rc.local, but /etc/rc.conf now overrides the hostname and makes it harder to preserve the identity of the system. I think the following patch can solve the problem with no harmful side effects. Opinions ? And in case, could this go into -current or -stable ? cheers luigi info# diff -ubwr rc.conf rc.conf.diskless --- rc.conf.orig Thu Mar 12 13:34:45 1998 +++ rc.conf Mon Mar 16 12:28:10 1998 @@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ ############################################################## ### Basic network options: ### +if [ "`hostname`" = "" ] +then hostname="myname.mydomain" # Set this! +fi nisdomainname="NO" # Set to NIS domain if using NIS (or NO). firewall_enable="NO" # Set to YES to enable firewall functionality firewall_type="UNKNOWN" # Firewall type (see /etc/rc.firewall) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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