Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-03-01 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:55:18AM -0500, Clay wrote: I realized what the problem mostly likely was after submitting the question. I do believe that the mount point where I am wanting to have rc.conf located is not yet available when the file is read. Is there a way to have this FS mounted

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 27 February 2005 08:11 pm, Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I am for the most part a newbie to FreeBSD. I am wanting to move some config files from their standard location to a single directory and create symlinks for each. Doing this will allow me to more easily maintain

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-02-28 01:32, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 08:11 pm, Clay wrote: I am for the most part a newbie to FreeBSD. I am wanting to move some config files from their standard location to a single directory and create symlinks for each. Doing this will

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Clay
I realized what the problem mostly likely was after submitting the question. I do believe that the mount point where I am wanting to have rc.conf located is not yet available when the file is read. Is there a way to have this FS mounted prior to rc.conf being read? Could I maybe place this

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 28 February 2005 04:55 am, Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realized what the problem mostly likely was after submitting the question. I do believe that the mount point where I am wanting to have rc.conf located is not yet available when the file is read. Is there a way to have this

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Clay
rebuild the root partition. Thanks, -Clay . . . . . - Original Message - From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ; Clay Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:03 PM Subject: Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink? On Monday 28 February 2005 04:55 am, Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 28 February 2005 06:32 pm, Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Joshua Tinnin Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:03 PM On Monday 28 February 2005 04:55 am, Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realized what the problem mostly likely was after submitting the

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:32:18PM -0500, Clay wrote: I could and may eventually write a script. I am putting together a media server for hosting my CD's as MP3's. I am wanting to move as many of system and app config files I change through this process to a location on my data partition

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Clay
for the responses! -Clay . . . . . - Original Message - From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ; Clay Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:34 PM Subject: Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink? On Monday 28 February 2005 06:32 pm, Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:38:38PM -0500, Clay wrote: All, I changed fstab so that my data partition would supposely mount before root, How do you think fstab will be read to know to mount some other partition first, when root (where fstab lives) is not yet mounted? moved/symlink'd

Re: Can /etc/rc.conf be replaced with a symlink?

2005-02-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 28 February 2005 07:38 pm, Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Joshua Tinnin Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:34 PM On Monday 28 February 2005 06:32 pm, Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Joshua Tinnin Sent: Monday,