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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:22:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c 
Message-ID:  <199901261522.KAA25154@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199901260306.TAA12075@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <88277.917316664@zippy.cdrom.com> <199901260306.TAA12075@apollo.backplane.com>

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<<On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:06:41 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>     Ok, basically I'm working on the situation where you have one or
>     more 'diskless' workstations, aka BOOTP workstations, and one
>     server.

Since BOOTP or DHCP is capable of passing a hostname, why not simply
use that?  Then, /etc/rc.conf.local says:

. /etc/`hostname`/rc.conf

...and /etc/rc.local says:

. /etc/`hostname`/rc.local

-GAWollman

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