From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 30 15:00:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12918 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12913 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:00:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08168; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806302146.OAA08168@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:33:13 CDT." <19980630163313.49201@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:46:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:29:31PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard woke me up to tell me: > > > > linux(enabled) = YES > > linux(doc) = { This variable controls whether linux emulation support > > will be automatically loaded at startup. You can also do it manually > > with the /usr/bin/linux command. } > > linux(exec-command) = "linux > /dev/null 2>&1" > > OK, so what's wrong with a simple /etc/rc.conf script that looks > something like: It doesn't scale. > This is just scribbling down after 30 seconds thought, don't trust my > syntax. But you get the general movement; that leaves you with one file > to edit (maybe add a rc.local to that too, to have a seperate file for > local changes). It makes it simple for an install script for, say, ssh, > to just echo/cat 3 lines onto the end of /etc/rc.local to start it up, > eliminating the /usr/local/etc/rc.d hack/kludge also. Yes. And you could call it /etc/rc too. Wrong direction, sorry. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message