Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:12:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Minor problems with upcomming 2.2.5 Message-ID: <199709171512.JAA02121@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199709171412.KAA09701@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> References: <199709171412.KAA09701@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com>
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Robert Withrow writes:
> I have great hopes of deploying FBSD 2.2.5 widely here in this SUNOS shop.
> To do this I would need to be able to have people install and run
> FBSD essentially ``out of the box''. To date this has not been possible
> for any prior version of FBSD due to various problems in the installation
> and in the code, stimulated by our environment---the largest problem
> areas have been with NFS and AMD, heavily used here.
I don't know that this is really something the FreeBSD team should
concern themselves with -- customizing FreeBSD for your site. It seems
to me the appropriate way to handle this would be to install the FreeBSD
release on a "virgin" machine at your site, configure it exactly how you
need it, including building a new kernel, etc., then create your own
distribution media from that. You could, for instance, put all of the
files on a machine and do ftp installs on all other machines.
I've seen the procedure for making your own distribution set documented
somewhere, but don't remember where. A search of the archives on the
web site should help.
> 2) I need the following patch to be made to rc.network. This is because
> *all* of our AMD maps are in NIS. Thus my rc.conf.local has a line like
> this:
>
> amd_flags='-c 3600 -l syslog `ypcat -k amd.master`'
>
> NOTE THE "'" quoting? That is *necessary* because NIS is not up at the
> time when rc.conf.local is sourced! The patch addes the necessary extra
> level of evaluation at the correct time (when AMD is being started and
> NIS is already up):
>
> *** rc.network~ Sun Sep 14 08:32:10 1997
> --- rc.network Tue Sep 16 15:17:47 1997
> ***************
> *** 186,192 ****
>
> if [ "X${amd_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
> echo -n ' amd'
> ! amd -p ${amd_flags} > /var/run/amd.pid 2> /dev/null
> fi
>
> if [ "X${rwhod_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
> --- 186,192 ----
>
> if [ "X${amd_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
> echo -n ' amd'
> ! eval amd -p ${amd_flags} > /var/run/amd.pid 2> /dev/null
> fi
>
> if [ "X${rwhod_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
Sounds like this patch is needed for any setup using nis to distribute
the amd maps to work. I don't think many FreeBSD users are heavily
using amd and nis, so this is good test data.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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