From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 25 16: 1: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B16153A3 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01025; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:51:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903252351.PAA01025@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Rahul Dhesi Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.conf issues: host identity vs host config In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:41:22 PST." <199903251641.AA07426@bolero-x.rahul.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:51:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The current rc.conf system doesn't seem to allow for separating out host > identity from host configuration. Just to squash this; yes, it does. > As a result I'm not able to create a > site-wide rc.conf file and rdist it to multiple machines, configured > identically except for having distinct own host names. I think some > very basic information identifying a host should be kept in its own > place: You can do this trivially. Put the data in /etc/rc.conf.site, and include it at the end of /etc/rc.conf. rc.conf then contains per-system configuration information, and rc.conf.site can be rdist'ed around. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message