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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
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