On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:56:42AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > On 05/21/07 14:57, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > Jung-uk Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 'smbios.system.uuid' is exported from loader, not from kernel. And it > >> already checks two things, i.e., all zero's and all 0xff's, which are > >> the most common and 'useless' UUIDs. If the SMBIOS has one of these, > >> it is not set at all. > > Is it safe to assume that smbios.system.uuid returns a string of the > > correct form (the correct amount of hex digits with hyphens in the right > > places) which is neither all-bits-zero nor all-bits-one? In that case, > > there is no need to check anything in etc/rc.d/hostid. > > DES > > [picking random related post to reply to] > > The hostid script also is cranky when used on a diskless host, because it > can't write to it's hostid file. I've been ignoring it, but I wanted to at > least mention it. > > Shall I file a PR?
I'm not sure that's a bug. Perhaps if it's too noisy. There are several other places that require a writable etc or require certain files to be linked to somewhere writable. Adding a note to the diskless(8) manpage might be useful. -- Brooks
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