cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d hostid

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Mon, May 21, 2007, Mike Makonnen wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:22:44AM +0000, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> > rse         2007-05-21 08:22:44 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     etc/rc.d             hostid
> >   Log:
> >   The standardized textual representation of UUIDs according to RFC 4122
> >   and ISO/IEC-9834-8:2005 is with LOWER-CASE hexadecimal characters only,
> >   so translate the (usually upper-case and this way not conforming)
> >   representation of the BIOS UUID when reading it. Also be more strict
> >   about the valid characters in the textual representation by checking for
> >   just the hexadecimal characters.
>
> tr(1) lives in /usr/bin, which may not be available when / (root) is
> mounted (it may live on a remotely mounted filesystem, for example). So,
> you can't rely on tr(1) being available when this script is run.

Well, I explicitly checked the script and it contained uuidgen(1) which
also stays under /usr/bin so I blindly concluded that tr(1) is fine, too
;-) So, although we can try to replace tr(1) with something else we have
a problem as we cannot easily replace the uuidgen(1) call. Hmmm... I'll
investigate. Thanks for the hint.

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