From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 17 12:52:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08661 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA08493 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:52:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id UAA22620; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:25:09 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199803171925.UAA22620@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: proposed minimum change to rc.conf To: Studded@dal.net (Studded) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:25:09 +0100 (MET) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <350EDCBF.A6C6A8A1@dal.net> from "Studded" at Mar 17, 98 12:27:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > boot process works. Nothing in rc.conf makes something happen, it's just ok, you are right, $hostname != /bin/hostname ... so the change i proposed can be applied to rc.conf.local or whatever it is called > If all you want to do is avoid having rc.network set a hostname, just ... > If I'm unclear on what you actually want to do, please feel free to > correct me. I'm working on a tutorial for dhcp so your actual needs will > be good input. :) my goal is to setup a server for diskless machines with shared root and /usr partition, mfs /tmp and /var, and local/nfs swap. I have had this working for about 3 yrs now, but creating the root partition requires some work for patching files in /etc. The switch to rc.conf and the presence of rc.local to override the defaults makes things relatively easier by concentrating changes in one place (i still need some patching to /etc/rc to mount and populate the mfs /var so that there is a writable partition to work on, but luckily the patch is reasonably small.) cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message