From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 13 23:09:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA29655 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz201.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz201.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29612 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz201.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA01460 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:06:43 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA01025 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:06:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA10051 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:49:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610122049.WAA10051@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /sbin/init permission To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:49:22 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610111145.MAA08420@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Oct 11, 96 12:45:25 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Moved from -committers to -hackers) As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Changing permissions to /sbin/init has no > undesired side effects, so it thought it was a non controversial > change. Maybe I am wrong ? I'm not even sure whether this is a bug in NFS or not. If the file is executable, this should probably suffice. OTOH, i think with the current setup, it's almost impossible to have the root f/s exported without option root=0. > It is my impression that quite a few people are using the diskless > code -- mostly to administer labs etc. with many machines where > users have the habit of pushing the reset button when something > goes wrong. Every people I talked to has developed their own > solutions. > It would be nice if these efforts could be coordinated to produce > an easy "diskless" setup utility. The description in the handbook was sufficient for me to get my own setup going. However, what i've been missing was a good template that could serve as cpio input for how to clone the existing root f/s for a diskless client. A plain file list is probably too hard to maintain (each time a new file goes into /etc, this list has to be updated), so some kind of a script might be better. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)