Subject: Re: hardware check in /etc/rc.local?
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/05/1996 15:51:02
Herb Peyerl wrote:
>
> Jason R. Thorpe wrote:
> >
> > this is pretty cool, but it breaks on systems that preserves the kernel
> > message buffer across reboots (i.e. most ports :-)
>
> Not to mention that it assumes you've booted /netbsd and not /onetbsd
> for example or /netbsd.known.good.kernel.1. Though arguably this is
> something that should be fixed elsewhere.
True enough. My idea is for a "server" type machine that may be rebooted
occasionally, or may spontaneously reboot. If anything is different,
the dmesg output would be an indicator. I realize that booting a
different kernel would result in problems, but I believe booting multiuser
with that scenario would likely have errors with dev_mkdb and kvm_mkdb
and/or anything with libkvm. Anyway, I don't know of anyway to figure
this out via a section in /etc/rc.local without libkvm and/or kernel
support.
-Andrew