Hi all,
I needed to enable the DHCP server on the machine that's going to
become my OpenBSD/pf firewall/router/NAT, and the directions said to
put this:
# echo 'dhcpd_flags=' /etc/rc.conf.local
On my machine there was no rc.conf.local, just an rc.local, so I put it
there, and no joy, dhcpd
On 2014-10-28 09:46, Steve Litt wrote:
Is /etc/rc.local just some artifact I should ignore, or does it
actually have a purpose?
It has a purpose. Some local startup activities may require
scripting. The rc.conf.* files are parsed for variables, they
are not scripts.
On 14-10-28 08:46 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
Is /etc/rc.local just some artifact I should ignore, or does it
actually have a purpose?
Both.
RTFM: rc(8), rc.conf(8), rcctl(8)
While that manpage uses language like It is **advisable** to leave
rc.conf untouched, the actual situation is much stricter
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:09:33 -0400
Josh Grosse j...@jggimi.homeip.net wrote:
On 2014-10-28 09:46, Steve Litt wrote:
Is /etc/rc.local just some artifact I should ignore, or does it
actually have a purpose?
It has a purpose. Some local startup activities may require
scripting. The
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:11:51 -0500
Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net wrote:
The question you actually asked was about /etc/rc.local, which serves
a completely different function. That file remains a shell script
wherein you can put whatever custom craziness you like, that gets
executed
On 14-10-28 10:34 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
I think I understand. If I wanted to run daemontools at boot, I would
put the svscanboot command in /etc/rc.local, right?
Assuming there was no pre-built package, or port available, yes.
For example, I have installed smokeping from source instead of
On 2014-10-28 11:45, Adam Thompson wrote:
On 14-10-28 10:34 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
I think I understand. If I wanted to run daemontools at boot, I would
put the svscanboot command in /etc/rc.local, right?
Assuming there was no pre-built package, or port available, yes.
There are other valid
On October 28, 2014 5:05:47 PM CET, Josh Grosse j...@jggimi.homeip.net wrote:
On 2014-10-28 11:45, Adam Thompson wrote:
On 14-10-28 10:34 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
I think I understand. If I wanted to run daemontools at boot, I
would
put the svscanboot command in /etc/rc.local, right?
Assuming
On 2014-10-28 13:22, Alexander Hall wrote:
On October 28, 2014 5:05:47 PM CET, Josh Grosse
j...@jggimi.homeip.net wrote:
These days I'm using mount_tmpfs(8), which inherits attributes from
the
mount point.
FWIW, so did mount_mfs...
Well, yeah. But not until 2004! :)
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