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Re: Comments on rc-athena package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Feb 5 16:19:02 1996
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Feb 1996 17:43:59 EST."
<199602042244.RAA04272@foundation.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 16:18:38 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> > is modified as appropriate for the system (e.g. HOST, ADDR). Derek
> > suggested that we use sed to do this as we install packages using
> > install.sh stuff.
>
> Ick. If the user changes the hostname or something after installing
> the package, the file would need to be hand modified. For now,
> I think the best thing to do would be to leave those variables out.
I think certain things can be removed from rc.athena. For example, I
don't see any reason that we need HOST or ADDR in the rc.conf file.
The only possible reason would be to lookup CLUSTER info in hesiod,
but I dont think we're going to do that. So I think removing the
COMPLETELY unused variables is in order.
Just to explain what I mean by using 'sed' to modify rc.conf... I
think that if we have a coherent Linux-Athena installation, the
rc.athena and rc.conf files would get installed first and then each
package that gets installed would modigy rc.conf appropriately. For
example, installing Linux-AFS would set AFSCLIENT=true; installing the
zephyr package would set ZCLIENT=true; etc.
-derek
