Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:10:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Lay <nslay@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Profile rc idea Message-ID: <4A1F603A.9080400@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4A1F1DA3.8010005@comcast.net> References: <4A1F1DA3.8010005@comcast.net>
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Sounds great, we look forward to reviewing your patches. :) Seriously, lots of people have proposed this, no one has come up with a serious implementation yet. Depending on what variables you want to set a very simple implementation could be a script that prompts the user with a menu to choose their location and sets the variables accordingly. That script could be set to run first using the existing rc.d system. Doug Nathan Lay wrote: > Hi list, > It would be interesting if rc was extended to support profiles. Each > profile would reflect a different system configuration. For example > profiles could describe the computing environment at: home, work, > friend's house, airplane, etc... The active profile the system uses > could be chosen based on some contingency condition. For example, > simply prompting the user to choose an rc profile at boot, or using > hardware to choose the profile (e.g. like location based contingency > using GPS hardware), or whatever... I guess this only pertains to > booting though, but rc seems like a natural place to do this. Thoughts, > comments? Yet another idea I have no time to try... > > Best Regards, > Nathan Lay > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-rc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-rc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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