From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 14 6:46:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E7037B422 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 06:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4EDkHP02481 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 09:46:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105141346.f4EDkHP02481@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: booting away from the network From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:46:17 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org One thing that I haven't seen mentioned so far in the network/ppp booting saga is getting the machine to boot on its own away from the network. I get long/perpetual pauses for ntpdate and sendmail, which I ^C away from. Ideally, the system would find that it doesn't have a connection on fxp0 and not try to start daemons that won't work (and perhaps start ppp on demand and set a global variable that could be read in my .xsession so that it doesn't start applications that would try to use the network). hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message