From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 25 18:11:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29174 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29169; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA88256; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:08:36 -0800 (PST) To: Matthew Dillon cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:01:41 PST." <199901260101.RAA08921@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:08:36 -0800 Message-ID: <88252.917316516@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hmmmm. Maybe I haven't looked at this problem enough, but every suggestion I've seen so far has had just the faintest odor about it. There are no _clean_ solutions to this problem? :-) - Jordan > : > :> Do people have any objections to running ifconfig and route inside > :> /etc/rc.conf to 'calculate' a machine-specific rc.conf.local path ? > : > :I do - I like the fact that rc.conf is a "passive" mechanism and can > :be included multiple times (or trivially overridden in rc.conf.local) > :since it only defines variables and has no other "side effects." > : > :- Jordan > > What if we added a sysctl variable to the diskless subsection to make > the IP address more readily accessible. Then rc.conf would only have to > run a sysctl ( which should be acceptable ). That would avoid having > to run route and ifconfig. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message