Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:08:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) Message-ID: <199610232308.BAA29153@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610232226.PAA10607@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 23, 96 03:26:17 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Regardless how many asterisks you put in there, you already lose.
> > There are tons of local config files in and under /etc.
>
> The question is whether or not they can be static enough to burn a
> CDROM and boot from it, or statis enough that I can mount one / and
> a seperate /var (as a memfs, ideally) on 250 machines in a student
> lab.
You need some sort of machine configuration, though i think in your
environment (no UUCP, no SLIP, no PPP, everything in the same domain,
everything with the same nameservers), most of them is already
concentrated in /etc/sysconfig.
What do you need /{var,etc}/namedb/ for in your scenario? Do you need
250 nameservers? If so, are they primaries? Then they'd share the
same files... Are they secondaries? Then they certainly share
/etc/named.boot (readonly), where nobody forbids you to put a
`directory' directive in.
However, you cannot expect us to tailor the default configuration just
for your 250+ machines lab. I do not expect the default configuration
to include X11, and start xdm either, just only because it's what _i_
need most after installing FreeBSD.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199610232308.BAA29153>