Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:08:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... Message-ID: <199704111708.TAA19618@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <1928.860777443@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 11, 97 09:50:24 am
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> > how about creating HERE documents *inside* sysconfig which create > > /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/namedb.boot, ...... > > So they'd be regenerated each time you booted up? > > Hmmmm. That's not such a terrible idea, actually, just so long as the > here documents were wrapped around: > > if [ -w /etc/targetfile ]; then > .. here document which writes on it ... > fi > > So that you could handle the read-only-root case. I kinda like it! > What do others thing? see my other posting on the subject. It has some value, expecially for small files such as resolv.conf, host.conf , hosts, ... but when it comes to large or binary files you are screwed. Besides, you can burn yourself with this feature when you make a change to the /etc/xxx file and forget to disable writing to it... 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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