Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:22:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: "Tim Judd \(tajudd@gmail.com\)" <tajudd@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How customized can an mfsroot be? Message-ID: <4BBC32A4.1080906@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84AD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <x2uade45ae91004051730j87d11987j47b3b945971c85d6@mail.gmail.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <m2gade45ae91004051744pa4d4d86ax6a1e1f38195dc6a7@mail.gmail.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FDD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8066@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84AD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On 07/04/2010 06:28:40, Peter Steele wrote:
> I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It looks
> like what the auto-var process does is a construct basic directory
> structure but no data. Is there a solution to this? Can I get /var to
> be populated with the full contents of the real /var?
Can you write a few shell scripts? You'ld need to create a tarball of
the /var contents you need on the box, and explode it onto /var at boot
time -- if you're using auto-var on MFS all the time, you'll need to set
that up to happen on every reboot.
Cheers,
Matthew
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