Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 13:56:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, giles@nemeton.com.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... Message-ID: <199704131157.NAA23250@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199704131218.FAA01278@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Apr 13, 97 05:18:40 am
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> > I have to agree; I just became/got stuffed into being admin for an AIX > > machine, and I don't even want to think about it all. I look in /etc, and > > just about everything's symlinked all over the disk!! What happens in one > > of those other partitions gets corrupted, and that's where the file you > > need to fix it actually is?? Not to mention, just trying to ls -fl, you > > can barely read it all. that has been my experience as well. Nevertheless: > 1. replace files in /etc/with symlinks to /var/etc or /etc/local. this solves all the above problems. > 2. edit /etc/sysconfig to contain shell HERE documents. > if a shell variable is set (CONFIGETC ?) then and only then > are the HERE documents used to replace the contents of the > files in /etc. the location _does_not_chnage_. > > to clone a box, all you would need to do is copy /etc/sysconfig > to another computer and set CONFIGETC in /etc/sysconfig. i see two minor difficulties here, i) /etc/sysconfig might be run several times at boot time since different files might need its variables, and ii) a way is needed to make sysconfig reflect changes to the various files. The first is only (hopefully) a problem of efficiency, the second means that you cannot really clone a system using this method. 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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