Things to remove from /rescue
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jul 17 09:13:21 PDT 2003
In message: <20030717080805.GA98878 at dragon.nuxi.com>
"David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> writes:
: - domainname, one does not need YP in the circumstances /rescue is meant
: to address.
I'd agree of its marginality.
: - date, one can use a watch if they really want to know it is 5am and
: their system is down.
Setting the time/date can be important at times, so keeping this would
be good.
: - sleep, this is what the admin wishes he was doing at 5am rather than
: trying to recover a borked system. The admin doesn't need the OS
: sleeping and delaying the repair.
agreed.
: - adjkerntz, who cares if the date is wrong if you right to the FS (and
: you are on a PC and have Winloose on it also). At the least this
: should only be installed on i386.
agreed, since this is needed only at the DST transitions.
: - comcontrol, I can't begin to imagine why one would need this to fix
: a borked /.
agreed.
: - conscontrol, I can't begin to imagine why one would need this to fix
: a borked /.
agreed.
: - growfs, how would growing / fix a borked /lib??
this could be useful, but it is definitely at the margin.
: - ipfw & natd & ipf & ipfs & ipfstat & ipmon & ipnan, why would one needs
: these? /rescue is to fix a borked /, not replace PicoBSD.
agreed.
: - nfsiod, to quote "It improves performance but is not required for
: correct operation." Recovering a borked / doesn't need to be high
: performance.
agreed.
: - quotacheck, does one really want to enforce quota's on root, while he
: is trying direly to fix a borked /??
could be useful to repair borked quotas on /, but it is at the
margins.
: - shutdown, 'reboot' is sufficient when single user -- there are no other
: users on the system inform of the impending shutdown.
agreed.
: - swapon, this is not needed to fix a whacked out /lib.... unless we add
: Emacs to /resuce.
This is also marginal, but might be needed.
: - wall, when single user (as one needs to be to fix a broked /) who is
: one going to communicate with??
agreed.
: - tar, pax (w/{bz,g}zip) can do everything GNU tar can.
agreed, but there should be links to it.
Basically, all the ones I marked as marginal are small enough to
include w/o a large impact. A quick ls suggests that they would only
add about 32k to the image, which seems reasonable. the others, well,
we can save the space.
Warner
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