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Date:      Fri, 29 May 2009 12:19:13 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        yvesguerin@yahoo.ca
Cc:        freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Profile rc idea
Message-ID:  <4A203531.8020107@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <302139.58064.qm@web56408.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References:  <302139.58064.qm@web56408.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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Yves Guérin 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 network interface on my laptop.
> I grab the answer or the choice via the kenv system call, and on my rc directory I start my own script just before netif to configure my network depending on the answer I choose at boot time. So I think the idea can be modify for every used that you can dream of.
> 
> 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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