On Thu, 9 May 2002, Michael Smith wrote: > > I've finally learned enough forth to put together a diff to implement some > > nextboot functionality in the loader. > > > > Basically, the loader peeks into the first line of /boot/nextboot.conf to > > see if nextboot_enable="YES" is there. If it is, it reads the entire > > config, then rewrites the first line to nextboot_enable="NO" > > Don't do this. Put the variables directly into loader.conf. There's no > need for another file.
I think it's a bad idea to try to rewrite /boot/loader.conf. I purposely went for /boot/nextboot.conf so that if something went wrong with the rewrite, it (hopefully) wouldn't hose the user's settings. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
