Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:15:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan.anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>, Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available Message-ID: <4F65292D.9000409@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmon6HRc5WQ%2B=ediMfncxmL8=imRHQsvhz9RavP2Wj27Q4Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> <CAJ-VmokUV8t3W4CueZuiZC7e=FuVtFu1jq54V_NpRc79-3QG=w@mail.gmail.com> <ACA5E377-BFF9-4C1D-8499-A8003FFE79B3@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4F63E809.1080606@FreeBSD.org> <4F63ED21.60302@vangyzen.net> <4F640E54.1040401@FreeBSD.org> <20120317102702.GC83408@azathoth.lan> <4F651F86.40200@FreeBSD.org> <CAJ-Vmon6HRc5WQ%2B=ediMfncxmL8=imRHQsvhz9RavP2Wj27Q4Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/17/2012 17:08, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I can imagine a netboot'ed system where the config in /etc/alternates/
> is different for individual hosts, which have a shared root.
>
> That way you can have two netbooted hosts with a shared read-only
> rootfs, but a ramdisk /etc, with the locally configured mailer,
> alternates, etc.
Sure, and in that situation the conf file in /etc would still work just
as well.
I should point out that I'm imagining a conf file *plus* an rc.d script
to enforce it ... likely just calling update-alternatives (or whatever
we decide to call it).
Doug
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