From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 25 23:56:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23154 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles37.castles.com [208.214.165.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23147; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15165; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:53:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901260753.XAA15165@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:51:53 +0100." <24350.917337113@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:53:14 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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... What I said. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message