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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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