cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d hostid

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 23 16:52:32 UTC 2007


On Tue, 22 May 2007, Brooks Davis wrote:

> I think /etc or /boot is the right place and IIRC pjd had a reason why
> /etc was right.  The problem with /var/db is that's it's not available
> until fairly late in the boot and hostid is needed for non-root disks.
>
> It's worth remembering that in the normal course of operation,
> /etc/hostid is written once per system lifetime.  Making diskless users
> set it up by hand or as a symlink to somewhere writable seems harmless
> to me.

That sounds reasonable.

Doug

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