Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:51:31 -0400 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Scott Worthington <SWorthington@hsag.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Location of vinum /var/tmp/vinum_history Message-ID: <19991027165131.02287@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <s8170041.022@internal.hsag.com>; from Scott Worthington on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 01:37:56PM -0700 References: <s8170041.022@internal.hsag.com>
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On Wednesday, 27 October 1999 at 13:37:56 -0700, Scott Worthington wrote:
> Is it possible to change the default location of the
> /var/tmp/vinum_history file?
Yes. From vinum(8):
ENVIRONMENT
VINUM_HISTORY The name of the log file, by default
/var/log/vinum_history.
> Reason being: my /var is symlinked to /usr/var
> and my vinum0 drive is mounted as /usr. Therefore,
> at boot time, the /usr volume is not available.
>
> <break to read man page>
>
> Okay, I see that you can set the environment
> variable VINUM_HISTORY to point to the
> correct location of the file.
>
> How do you set an environment variable at boot
> time? I am assuming that at boot up the vinum
> module reads VINUM_HISTORY.
It's not the module (vinum(4)), it's the userland program (vinum(8)).
I haven't thought of this issue. Basically, the invocation of
vinum(8) in /etc/rc does only one command: start. I hadn't thought it
worth capturing this information in a history file somewhere else. I
might make it shut up and not mention the fact, though.
Greg
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