Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:38:20 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How customized can an mfsroot be? Message-ID: <4BBC6EAC.1060500@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84B5@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> <4BBC32A4.1080906@infracaninophile.co.uk> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84B5@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On 07/04/2010 12:09:56, Peter Steele wrote:
>> 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.
> Obviously I can do that. What I was really asking was if there was a
> BSD option to do this automatically. I don't want to needlessly bloat
> the image if I can avoid it since this is to become a downloadable iso.
There is no pre-canned method to copy data into /var. The closest thing
is /etc/rc.d/var which creates a skeleton directory tree. This is
designed for diskless usage -- if you look at the script, it's pretty
easy to see it doesn't have much in the way of customization hooks.
Basically you get what's recorded in the mtree files: BSD.var.dist and
(optionally) BSD.sendmail.dist
Like I said, you're going to have to script it yourself.
Cheers,
Matthew
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