On 05/10/10 08:30 AM, Dave Miner wrote:
On 05/10/10 10:17 AM, Sarah Jelinek wrote:
I thought part of this proposal was to deprecate the use of this file.
As Erik points out it is documented today in nodename(4), and has been
around a really long time. I would think that we would file an ARC case
to EOL this interface along with this proposal. If we are keeping it
around, I think the read-only option is a good choice. but, I think even
if we do this, EOL'ing this as a writeable interface needs to be done.
I'm not sure how any proposal to make this read-only would work, since
any scripts that wrote here in the past are privileged and would just
blow right through mode bits.
Fair point. Then it seems as if we have to either remove
/etc/nodename(EOL it) or use the SMF properties in a transient way,
removing them after configuration.
sarah
Dave
thanks,
sarah
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On 05/10/10 06:21 AM, John Fischer wrote:
Erik,
Thanks!! You are not the first one to ask about /etc/nodename
and scripts. I think that we should probably kept it around in
some form too.
Thanks,
John
On 05/10/10 05:08 AM, Erik Nordmark wrote:
On 05/ 6/10 03:17 PM, John Fischer wrote:
All,
Attached is the first revision of the System Configuration SMF
service
nodename
design document.
Comments/Questions welcomed.
We currently document the existence of /etc/nodename in nodename(4).
Thus it wouldn't be unreasonable for a customer to have developed
scripts which write the nodename to /etc/nodename instead of using
uname -S.
What happens if such scripts are run in the new world?
Would it be helpful to provide a read-only /etc/nodename which
contains just a comment along the lines of:
# This file has been obsoleted. Use uname(1m) to set and get the
nodename
That way such a script would at least fail, instead of silently
continuing without updating the nodename.
Erik
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