On 03/17/2012 17:08, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I can imagine a netboot'ed system where the config in /etc/alternates/ > is different for individual hosts, which have a shared root. > > That way you can have two netbooted hosts with a shared read-only > rootfs, but a ramdisk /etc, with the locally configured mailer, > alternates, etc.
Sure, and in that situation the conf file in /etc would still work just as well. I should point out that I'm imagining a conf file *plus* an rc.d script to enforce it ... likely just calling update-alternatives (or whatever we decide to call it). Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"