Steve Polyack <kor...@comcast.net> wrote: > ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to > end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM > (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's > on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into > single-user mode, the links on the interfaces never come up, > and therefore the LOM becomes inaccessible. > > ... all one has to do is run ifconfig to cause the NIC's links to > come up ... why do we have to run ifconfig(8) to bring the links > up on the attached interfaces?
When trying to troubleshoot a problem that was known or suspected to involve the network or its hardware, one might not _want_ the NICs alive. > Short of patching init(8) (or perhaps the NIC drivers?), I don't > see another way for me to ensure the links come up even when the > system drops into single-user mode on boot. Something in /root/.profile, perhaps? That should get run when the single-user shell starts up, if it's started as a "login" shell. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
