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Date:      Thu, 20 May 1999 08:38:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Astonishingly stupid question
Message-ID:  <199905201538.IAA41353@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905201522.IAA02535@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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In article <199905201522.IAA02535@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>,
Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> wrote:
> 
> If I am not mistaken additional hooks have been added into
> the system to make it even easier to replace /sbin/init
> with what ever you like.  I think you can specify this
> as a kernel compile time option, so you don't have to
> rename Python to /sbin/init, you can make a kernel load
> /sbin/Python for you :-)

It looks like you can even specify a search path for init with the
"init_path" variable in "/boot/loader.rc".  At least there's a
commented-out example of it in "/boot/defaults/loader.conf".

John
-- 
  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief."           -- James V. DeLong


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