Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:53:30 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bootparamd and /etc/rc Message-ID: <20030111103630.R19919-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030110055159.GA60255@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:52:34PM +0100, dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl wrote: > > I could find no reference to 'bootparamd' in any file in the /etc tree > > (with one exception for /etc/rpc, but that was not what I was looking > > for). > > Shouldn't there be an entry in rc.network and in defaults/rc.conf? > > > > Or did I miss something? > > I've typically seen bootparamd(8) run out of inetd(8). > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org > Crist, I think you are thinking of bootpd(8). man bootparamd says: DESCRIPTION Bootparamd is a server process that provides information to diskless(8) clients necessary for booting. It consults the /etc/bootparams file. It starts once and listens for 'whoami' requests. I use it to net-boot my uVAX. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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