Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/58272: [patch] rc.d/diskless detection, dhcp rebuild Message-ID: <200310212100.h9LL0UNI043994@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/58272; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Matt Peterson <matt@peterson.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, dougb@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/58272: [patch] rc.d/diskless detection, dhcp rebuild Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:50:16 -0700 (PDT) > Actually, we need to re-think this. In our situation (again, not PXE > boot, but CF card mounted read-only), dhclient is currently run after > the diskless script (thus it can't plum the system's resolv.conf, > hostnamed and related). See below... dhclient wants contineous access - so it wil have to live on /var/* or in a /etc overlay which is RW. Our solution has been to let a /etc/resolv.conf be set up as a link from /etc/ - and modify dhclient-script in /sbin to cope with both symlinks and a normal /etc. Dw
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