Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:58:03 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: profile manager for FreeBSD working in different environments ? Message-ID: <19991021075803.A14781@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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Hi ! When running FreeBSD on a Laptop, I'd whish to have a profile manager active, who asks me, what FreeBSD configuration I want to boot. The task would be to write a profile manager, which allows you to create/manage different sets of rc.conf files and which let's you choose, with what rc.conf file you want to boot... rc.conf.company rc.conf.home rc.conf.customer1 rc.conf.customer2 rc.conf.customer3 rc.conf.customer4 Purpose: manage it easily, to get a Laptop up and running at different sites with a minumum of effort... Example: At home I have another fixed IP address. Another default gateway. Maybe at another site I need RIP2 routing, etc ... DHCP, yes/no .... Does somebody ever thought of this or already managed this ? Good would be a startup script, that detects some instances of rc.conf and offers the user for some configurable delay, to boot configuration 1..n Given: /etc/rc.conf.home /etc/rc.conf.company /etc/rc.conf.school /etc/rc.conf.fred Should produce something like this: Which Profile do you want to boot ? 1.... home 2.... company 3.... school 4.... fred 29 seconds left ^--- configurable counter ... What do you think of this ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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