From owner-cvs-all Sat Feb 27 12:10:43 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles79.castles.com [208.214.165.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3325D14BDB; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:10:40 -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 MAA07212; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:05:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902272005.MAA07212@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/sbin/kget Makefile kget.8 kget.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:18:49 PST." <14339.920114329@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:05:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Thanks. You should also add it to /etc/rc[whatever] so that it gets > > invoked on startup. > > Well, therein lies the problem. I could write it to /boot/kern.conf, > but then it would only benefit those who explicitly load it in > loader.rc (and currently, none of the default configurations do this). > > Suggestions? Whilst I'm not enthused about having the loader know more magic filenames, I'd be inclined to add some code which checks to see if a userconfig_script object had already been read, and if not, searched for .conf and loaded it just before invoking the kernel (in about the same place as the automatic load of PnP-required modules should happen). -- \\ 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