Hello Everyone,
I was looking for a good way to run "make installworld" in single-user
mode on a machine which I don't have any kind of remote hands or
serial-console access to. The first thought that came to my head was to
temporarily put the commands at the end of rc.shutdown. I'm not sure if
the machine is still multi-user at that point. Anyway it worked, but on
such a slow machine it didn't complete before init timed out the
shutdown script. So I looked at init...
On line 1576 (spacing changed, comment added for email):
if (
sysctlbyname("kern.shutdown_timeout", &shutdowntimeout, &len, NULL, 0)
== -1 || shutdowntimeout < 2
) shutdowntimeout = DEATH_SCRIPT; /* DEATH_SCRIPT = 120 */
I know that there was a "kern.shutdown_timeout" in FBSD 3, but there
doesn't seem to be one now in FBSD 4.8-RC (from yesterday).
So my questions are:
1. Does init check for this seemingly retired OID on purpose?
2. What's "The Right Way" or even "A Right Way" to do an installworld
on a remote machine?
Thanks in advance!
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