Profile rc idea

[Doug Barton]

Sounds great, we look forward to reviewing your patches. :)

Seriously, lots of people have proposed this, no one has come up with
a serious implementation yet.

Depending on what variables you want to set a very simple
implementation could be a script that prompts the user with a menu to
choose their location and sets the variables accordingly. That script
could be set to run first using the existing rc.d system.

Doug

Nathan Lay wrote:
> Hi list,
> It would be interesting if rc was extended to support profiles.  Each
> profile would reflect a different system configuration.  For example
> profiles could describe the computing environment at: home, work,
> friend's house, airplane, etc... The active profile the system uses
> could be chosen based on some contingency condition.  For example,
> simply prompting the user to choose an rc profile at boot, or using
> hardware to choose the profile (e.g. like location based contingency
> using GPS hardware), or whatever...  I guess this only pertains to
> booting though, but rc seems like a natural place to do this.  Thoughts,
> comments?  Yet another idea I have no time to try...
> 
> Best Regards,
> Nathan Lay
> 
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