From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 25 23:54:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22717 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:54:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22680; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:54:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24352; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:51:53 +0100 (CET) To: Matthew Dillon cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:01:41 PST." <199901260101.RAA08921@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:51:53 +0100 Message-ID: <24350.917337113@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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