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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:51:53 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c 
Message-ID:  <24350.917337113@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:01:41 PST." <199901260101.RAA08921@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <199901260101.RAA08921@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:
>:
>:>     Do people have any objections to running ifconfig and route inside
>:>     /etc/rc.conf to 'calculate' a machine-specific rc.conf.local path ?
>:
>:I do - I like the fact that rc.conf is a "passive" mechanism and can
>:be included multiple times (or trivially overridden in rc.conf.local)
>:since it only defines variables and has no other "side effects."
>:
>:- Jordan
>
>    What if we added a sysctl variable to the diskless subsection to make 
>    the IP address more readily accessible.  Then rc.conf would only have to
>    run a sysctl ( which should be acceptable ).  That would avoid having
>    to run route and ifconfig.

Why doesn't bootp set the hostname in the first place ?  If not supplied
a reverse DNS should be done...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!

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