From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 16:22:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA19028 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:22:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18982 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA01026 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:21:27 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA05163 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:21:26 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id BAA29153 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:08:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610232308.BAA29153@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:08:29 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610232226.PAA10607@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 23, 96 03:26:17 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)