Hello all,
I recently decided that it would be a good idea to set up a diskless
workstation at home. While I was working on setting it up I ran into numerous
problems with the rc scripts, particularly chick-and-egg type mounting
problems. However I also noticed some problems with scripts that are important
to everyone, not just diskless users.
/etc/rc.d/named:
The pid file used by the rc script uses the file /var/run/named.pid for use
in reloading, restarting, etc. The default named.conf file in /etc/namedb
contains explicitly sets the pid file to /var/run/named/pid. I assume that the
reason FreeBSD puts the pid file in /var/run/named instead of just /var/run is
because of permissions (the default rc configuration starts named with '-u bind
-g bind') and thus could not write to /var/run. I propose the following change
to /etc/rc.d/named
17c17
< pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
---
> pidfile="/var/run/${name}/pid"
in order to match the default named.conf file.
/etc/rc.d/network1:
When using a diskless configuration this file took the interface offline,
preventing the machine from booting. I noticed that a change has been added to
check if an interface is up and skip configuring it if it is. Instead of using
grep it is possible to use ifconfig's -d option (see man page) to only list
interfaces marked as down. This is my change for /etc/rc.d/network1
140c140
< network_interfaces="`ifconfig -l -d`"
---
> network_interfaces="`ifconfig -l`"
148a149,153
> if ifconfig ${ifn} | grep -s UP, > /dev/null 2>&1; then
> # Interface is already up, so ignore it.
> continue;
> fi
>
Hope this helps someone.
regards,
Galen Sampson
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