Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:56:29 -0500 From: "Peter Brezny" <peter@skyrunner.net> To: "Bruce R. Montague" <brucem@mail.cruzio.com> Cc: <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: disabling the request for hostname and ipaddress. Message-ID: <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOIEDDFEAA.peter@skyrunner.net> In-Reply-To: <200211291817.gATIHJA00494@mail.cruzio.com>
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Bruce,
Thanks a lot for the complete description, until now, I didn't realize that
things were pulled in from mfs_tree as well.
What I wound up doing was putting a local copy of rc1 in my build's etc dir,
then modifying the rc1 to exclude:
#find_system_id # Set $main_eth $main_if
#set_main_interface # Set ${hostname} and ${ifconfig_${main_if}}
#set_all_interfaces # Set ${ifconfig_${if}} for other
interfaces.
It seems to work, I haven't broken anything big by doing this have I?
I also then created an rc.local that manually configures my interfaces and
runs the sysctl variables I need to cerate the bridge group, as well as a
custom firewall to use dummynet on that bridge.
Thanks again for your help!
Peter Brezny
Skyrunner.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce R. Montague [mailto:brucem@mail.cruzio.com]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 1:17 PM
To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: peter@skyrunner.net
Subject: Re: disabling the request for hostname and ipaddress.
Re:
> How do you configure picobsd not to ask for a hostname and ipaddress?
The contents of your running /etc are
formed from the picobsd build-time contents of:
/usr/src/release/picobsd/mfs_tree/etc
As overridden/merged with the contents of:
/usr/src/release/picobsd/floppy.tree/etc
As overridden/merged with the contents of your picobsd config dir's
floppy.tree/etc
In the "bridge" config there is no "floppy.tree/etc"
(although there is a "floppy.tree.exclude" _file_ which
excludes files from the two default dirs.
The default boot-time rc file is in
/usr/src/release/picobsd/mfs_tree/etc/rc
At the end of this "rc" script, it pulls in:
/usr/src/release/picobsd/floppy.tree/etc/rc1
which invokes (executes)
/usr/src/release/picobsd/floppy.tree/etc/rc.conf.defaults
and then calls "set_main_interface", defined in
"rc.conf.defaults". This rc.conf file is _not_
the same as for regular FreeBSD (it is much smaller).
Go down toward the bottom or "rc.conf.defaults" and
find routine "read_address()". This is where you
are prompted for the hostname and IP address.
You can customize the /etc/rc contents of your picobsd
to meet your needs by adding in your config dir your
own "floppy.tree/etc". See the
/usr/src/release/picobsd/router
and other configs (dial, etc) for examples of this.
- bruce
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