Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:32:05 -0400 From: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: support for "first boot" rc.d scripts Message-ID: <525B2D75.7080803@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: <525B258F.3030403@freebsd.org> References: <525B258F.3030403@freebsd.org>
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On 2013-10-13 18:58, Colin Percival wrote: > Hi all, > > I've attached a very simple patch which makes /etc/rc: > > 1. Skip any rc.d scripts with the "firstboot" keyword if /var/db/firstboot > does not exist, > > 2. If /var/db/firstboot and /var/db/firstboot-reboot exist after running rc.d > scripts, reboot. > > 3. Delete /var/db/firstboot (and firstboot-reboot) after the first boot. > > The purpose of this is to support "run on first boot" rc.d scripts. These can > be useful for both virtual machines and embedded systems; unlike conventional > desktops and servers, these may have a lengthy gap between "installing" and > "turning on" the system. > > As examples of what such scripts could do: > > * In Amazon EC2, I use a "first boot" script to download an SSH public key > from EC2 so that users can log in to newly provisioned EC2 instances. > > * Now that (starting from 10.0-BETA1) it is possible to use FreeBSD Update > to update everything on EC2 instances, I'm planning on writing a script which > runs 'freebsd-update fetch install' when the system first boots, and then > reboots if there were updates installed. (I imagine this would be useful > to other embedded / VM providers too.) > > * Once packages are provided (properly) for 10.0 I'd like to allow people to > specify a list of packages they want installed onto an EC2 instance and have > them downloaded and installed when the EC2 instance launches. > > I'd like to get this into HEAD in the near future in the hope that I can > convince re@ that this is a simple enough (and safe enough) change to merge > before 10.0-RELEASE. > > Comments? > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" This looks extremely useful. Thank you.
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