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Date:      Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:26:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mychal McGrew <myc@vapor.westin16.flyingcroc.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vinum
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912061426100.46403-100000@vapor.westin16.flyingcroc.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991206172532.32350@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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Greg,

Thank you. :)

Regards,

Mychal L. McGrew
UNIX Systems Administrator
Flying Crocodile, Inc.
http://www.flyingcroc.com
myc@nethead.com


On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Monday,  6 December 1999 at 14:15:45 -0800, Mychal McGrew wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> 
> > I have a question about vinum.  We use vinum on a machine of ours,
> > and I was wondering if there is a way to automate it to start on
> > bootup.  I'm not sure if there is a way, considering when you start
> > vinum it opens up a temp file in vi,
> 
> This is not correct.
> 
> > and you have to enter data into that file.
> 
> If all else fails, read the manual:
> 
> RUNNING VINUM
>      vinum is part of the base FreeBSD system.  It does not require installa-
>      tion.  To start it, start the vinum program, which will load the kld if
>      it is not already present.  Before using vinum, it must be configured.
>      See vinum(8) for information on how to create a vinum configuration.
> 
>      Normally, you start a configured version of vinum at boot time.  Set the
>      variable start_vinum in /etc/rc.conf to YES to start vinum at boot time.
> 
> > When you save the file, it then starts.  Anyone here use vinum, and know
> > how to automate it on bootup?  Any suggestions would be great.  Thanks, I
> > appreciate it.
> 
> You should read the following docuemnts:
> 
>   Man page vinum(4)
>   Man page vinum(8)
>   http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html
> 
> Greg
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