Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 05:14:11 -0700 (PDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Yves_Gu=E9rin?= <yvesguerin@yahoo.ca> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Profile rc idea Message-ID: <354710.32407.qm@web56403.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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Dear Doug, I will do some doc to explain what I have done, I will try to produce a pat= ch but my coding style may not follow the freebsd style and a review form t= he freebsd team will be necessary. Regards, Yves Guerin --- En date de : Sam 30.5.09, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> a =E9crit : De: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Objet: Re: Profile rc idea =C0: yvesguerin@yahoo.ca Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Date: Samedi 30 Mai 2009, 0h19 Yves Gu=E9rin wrote: > I did something similar to your idea, I custom the boot menu (beastie.4th= ) to choose between home, office, dhcp and default configuration for my net= work interface on my laptop. > I grab the answer or the choice via the kenv system call, and on my rc di= rectory I start my own script just before netif to configure my network dep= ending on the answer I choose at boot time. So I think the idea can be modi= fy for every used that you can dream of. >=20 > I am able to send you my configuration, the boot menu and the rc file. I really like the idea of leveraging the existing boot menu for this. Can you send your patches to the list? Doug =0A=0A=0A
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