From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 10 16:53:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741CC37B401; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB9543F5B; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242]) by franky.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0B0raAT017426; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:53:36 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242]) by hewey.af.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0B0rUNX023037; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:53:35 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:53:30 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl, Subject: Re: bootparamd and /etc/rc In-Reply-To: <20030110055159.GA60255@blossom.cjclark.org> Message-ID: <20030111103630.R19919-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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