Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:29:38 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>, "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d hostid Message-ID: <20070522172938.GA77003@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <46532337.2040302@FreeBSD.org> References: <200705211144.l4LBiEHY098477@repoman.freebsd.org> <200705211422.47842.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <86r6pagfic.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200705211548.46790.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <86myzygda0.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4652E88A.9080500@freebsd.org> <20070522152753.GB75668@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <46532337.2040302@FreeBSD.org>
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--HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:07:03AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: >=20 > > I'm not sure that's a bug. Perhaps if it's too noisy. There are > > several other places that require a writable etc or require certain > > files to be linked to somewhere writable. Adding a note to the > > diskless(8) manpage might be useful. >=20 > I had a concern about this too, but didn't want to seem like I was loadi= ng=20 > up on this poor little script. :) Would this be better placed in /var/d= b? I think /etc or /boot is the right place and IIRC pjd had a reason why /etc was right. The problem with /var/db is that's it's not available until fairly late in the boot and hostid is needed for non-root disks. It's worth remembering that in the normal course of operation, /etc/hostid is written once per system lifetime. Making diskless users set it up by hand or as a symlink to somewhere writable seems harmless to me. -- Brooks --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGUyiCXY6L6fI4GtQRAqC4AKDWOg8JfWSz5JmjDp0onDNR5xiEpwCg4ABn iitehuX4gPICE1LokvAisrw= =/lSk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV--
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