Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:27:16 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902090726370.5879-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199902090414.UAA49929@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> This does not make any operational change except to get rid
> of the $conf_dir junk from rc.conf, which I originally put
> in to try to bootstrap rc.diskless.
>
> A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me,
> which I'm going to implement. It involves retargeting
> the /conf/ME softlink by mount_union'ing a small MFS
> filesystem onto /conf. Then one simply makes /etc/rc.conf.local
> a softlink to /conf/ME/rc.conf.local ( i.e. a sysop would do
> that as an extra, we wouldn't distribute the base system
> like that of course )
>
> In anycase, I've committed a new rc.conf that gets rid
> of $conf_dir, FYI, and am about to commit a new rc.diskless and
> new examples that uses the mount_union idea for retargeting
> during a diskless boot that will be much more straightward and
> obvious.
>
Hasn't mount_union been dead for ~forever (+/- a few years)?
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon@backplane.com>
>
>
>
> rc_conf_files="/etc/rc.conf.site /etc/rc.conf.local"
>
> ...
>
> ##############################################################
> ### Allow local configuration override at the very end here ##
> ##############################################################
> #
> #
>
> for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
> if [ -f $i ]; then
> . $i
> fi
> done
>
>
>
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