From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 11:38:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B901065673 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:38:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0351B8FC19 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o37BcK9b074534 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:38:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BBC6EAC.1060500@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:38:20 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Steele References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.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> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84B5@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: How customized can an mfsroot be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:38:26 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku8bqwACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwkKQCcD4gISCSOdZQYWUAJk7DtSUrg tvsAn1YCo4veOCfusEJfzIA1GIxEplCp =uQPM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----