Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:12:50 +0200
From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: new rc.diskless{1,2} files
Message-ID: <E14k54c-0001j2-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:10:38 %2B0200 (CEST) .
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In message <200104012110.XAA43562@info.iet.unipi.it>you write: } http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/clone_root.010401 nice, i just do rsh dump ...| restore but then again, im still experimenting :-) } }and basically nothing else. The modified copies of files which }have to replace the original ones in the root partition }are taken from /conf/${IP} or /conf/${SUBNET} or /conf, where }$IP and $SUBNET are the IP address and the local broadcast address }of the first configured network interface. The code in /etc/rc.diskless1 }tries to find the longest match from the above. } }This lets you centralize the configurations, and yet have }separate configuration files. it's not centralized when you start replicating the root-fs. }It helps a lot to have not just variable assignments in /etc/rc.conf }(typically a "case" statement to do per-machine settings.) i like that idea of /etc/rc.conf, one of the changes i did to rc.diskless1 was that it sources /conf/default/etc/* first - i can't remember why :-( if [ -d /conf/default/etc ]; then <--- cp -Rp /conf/default/etc/* $1 fi if [ -d /conf/${bootp_ipa} ] ; then ... elif [ -d /conf/${hostname} ] ; then <-- cp -Rp /conf/${hostname}/etc/* $1 now if I could just get /conf from some central repository ... A tool to do some central management is dhcp, the problem there is that most of the predefined tags are useless, and the ones needed are not easy to configure. I managed to used dhcp to select what kernel to load. Im also trying to set up a way to configure, say X11, and having the XF86Config saved from the volatile /etc danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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