Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:29:17 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/examples/diskless clone_root Message-ID: <xzpsm98vl6a.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040923191538.GG25699@odin.ac.hmc.edu> (Brooks Davis's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:15:38 -0700") References: <200409231552.i8NFqh1c042744@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040923120543.B72856@xorpc.icir.org> <20040923191538.GG25699@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
> The problem is that currently there is no way to populate /var without a
> minimum of mtree which lives in /usr. Since /var is supposed to exist
> before we mount /usr there's a dependency problem. We should be able
> to fix the mtree dependency now that bsdtar is available since we could
> install a pax archive derived from the mtree file.
...or mtree could move to /sbin.
> We also strongly
> desire the creation of syslog files which currently requires newsyslog.
You can easily implement 'newsyslog -CC' with sh, touch, chown and
chmod:
while read file arg1 arg2 rest ; do
touch "${file}"
case ${arg1} in
*:*)
chown "${arg1}" "${file}"
arg1=3D"${arg2}"
;;
esac
case ${arg1} in
[0-7][0-7][0-7])
chmod "0${arg1}" "${file}"
;;
esac
done </etc/newsyslog.conf
(unfortunately, chown is in /usr/sbin, so you may have to skip that
step, or do the chown later. touch is in /usr/bin, but see below)
> The requirement for touch might be removable but I haven't really tried
> since the others are more fundamental.
You can easily implement 'touch' with sh and test:
touch() {
/bin/test -e "$1" || :>"$1"
}
DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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