From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 18 8:11:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7639037B9BF for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:11:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id IAA21663; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:11:04 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id IAA28899; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:11:03 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id IAA20630; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:10:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38AD709E.30FF4D9@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:17:34 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David E. Cross" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, crossd@xylan.com Subject: Re: bpgetfile References: <200002180927.EAA16299@cs.rpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David E. Cross" wrote: > > Solaris has this nifty little tool for querying the bootparam server on a > booting system. Handy little gadget for getting various system configuration > at boot time. Neither OpenBSD nor FreeBSD have it (FreeBSD has callbootd, > but I cannot get it to work easily), so I wrote a simple 'bpgetfile' for > the CSLab to use for some of our diskless systems. The code is available > at http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/bpgetfile.tar.gz Cool. Wanna wrap it in a port and send-pr it? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message