Subject: Re: Updating /etc...
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@telstra.com.au>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 12/19/1995 15:16:21
> For example, you could replace /etc/hostname.*, myname, defaultdomain,
> mygate, etc with the following variables in rc.conf:
> ---
> 	HOSTNAME=shelob
> 	DOMAINNAME=lair.werj.com.au
> 	DEFAULT_ROUTER=192.168.4.1
> 	INTERFACES="ed0 lo1"
> 	INTERFACE_ed0="inet shelob 0xffffffc0"
> 	INTERFACE_lo1="inet 127.0.0.2"
> ---

one really, really, really cool thing about rc.conf (i live on dec
systems too, remember...  8-) is that it's _very_ easy to
machine-generate...


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