freebsd stable - Nov 2006 - rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

Hello List,
I did a patch to allow rc.conf DAEMON_enable values to be decided at startup.

1) set apache_start="ask" in rc.conf
2) at boot, you'll be prompted with "RC_ASK - Enable apache? [yes|no]
"
3) the daemon is started depending on the decision
4) the decision is stored until the next boot, so that rc.shutdown can
decide whether to call stop for a particular daemon or not

See:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105568
for more information and to download the patch


Thanx!

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Am 15.11.2006, 14:31 Uhr, schrieb Pietro Cerutti  
<pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>:
> Hello List,
> I did a patch to allow rc.conf DAEMON_enable values to be decided at  
> startup.
>
> 1) set apache_start="ask" in rc.conf
> 2) at boot, you'll be prompted with "RC_ASK - Enable apache?
[yes|no] "
> 3) the daemon is started depending on the decision
> 4) the decision is stored until the next boot, so that rc.shutdown can
> decide whether to call stop for a particular daemon or not
>
> See:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105568
> for more information and to download the patch
>
>
> Thanx!
>

Hello,


looks good (and works on my FBSD6.1), in general i like the idea but some  
more feature would be nice.

There should be an tiemout so that the system boots even if I forget to  
choose
(for example if I want to connect to the system by remote, and sshd isn?t  
startet yet).
E.g. something like a global ASK_DELAY="sec" default set to 3sec or
so,
and adjustable by the variable.
(and maybe adjustable for every demon individual)
The DAEMON_enable variable should be set to ASK_DY to start after the  
default timeout and ASK_DN
to not start after the timeout.

It should also be possible to use the short form [y/n] while booting in  
addition to yes/no to start the deamon,
and when I misstype, the variable should be set to "no" so that there
is
no errormessage from the rc system.



greetings

On 11/15/06, Ingo <ingom-list@freenet.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
Hello,
> There should be an tiemout so that the system boots even if I forget to
> choose
Yup, great idea. The new patch [attached] permits you to set:

DAEMON_ask_timeout={0-9}[s|m|h]
and
DAEMON_ask_default=[yes|no]

in rc.conf

Default values have been put in rc.subr ("5s" and "yes")
>
> It should also be possible to use the short form [y/n] while booting in
> addition to yes/no to start the deamon,
This could be done, but at the moment I rely on the checkyesno
subroutine in rc.subr, which only accepts [yes, true, on, 1] and [no,
false, off, 0] in any combination of upper and lower case.

>
> greetings
>
Thanks for input, regards


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You should probably consider discussing this on the freebsd-rc@ list as 
well.

Doug

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