Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:17:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: sweeting@tm.net.my Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] proper way to configure startup scripts for tcp/ip ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331021656.397o-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v01540b05af636c34cfa1@[202.184.153.110]>
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997 sweeting@tm.net.my wrote:
> Now, this works OK but I was trying to get virtual domains to work and
> found that if i uncomment the ifonfig aliases in /etc/sysconfig above,
> nothing works at all... (yet I saw a reference to doing ifconfig aliasing
> in /etc/sysconfig in an earlier post)
>
> So, I have created a simple script to do the aliasing :
>
> ifconfig ep0 202.184.153.5 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
> ifconfig ep0 202.184.153.30 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
> ifconfig ep0 202.184.153.31 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
> route add -host 202.184.153.13 127.0.0.1
> /usr/local/sbin/httpd
>
> This works but is it the proper way to go about this ?
> How can i invoke my script automatically at start up ?
> (simply append to /etc/sysconfig ?)
Take a look at this note in sysconfig:
# Alternatively, /etc/start_if.${network_interface} is run if it exists.
# This script can be used as an alternative to the ifconfig_<xxx> lines.
Stick the original ifconfig and your above lines into /etc/startif.ep0 and
you should be good.
> Should I incorporate that route command into the sysconfig file ?
> eg. static_routes="202.184.153.13 127.0.0.1"
If you want.
> And since just to clean things up, freebsd calls httpd on bootup
> and fails (since the ip aliases are not set) ... where can i comment
> that out ? (i tried rc.local, rc*, inetd.conf)
It's probably run from a rc.d script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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