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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.94.214.100!shemesh.hq.tis.com!troma.rv.tis.com!not-for-mail From: mark@troma.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: adding IP to netstart w/o rebooting Date: 24 Mar 1997 11:26:25 -0500 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5h69vh$8a8@troma.rv.tis.com> References: <jpdavidE7DB5n.9LB@netcom.com> <5gun6q$p4r@troma.rv.tis.com> <5gv1ti$pak@arrow.va.pubnix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: troma.rv.tis.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6453 In article <5gv1ti$pak@arrow.va.pubnix.com>, Kurt J. Lidl <lidl@va.pubnix.com> wrote: >Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@troma.rv.tis.com> wrote: >> >>Nothing "looks at" netstart to know what it should do. netstart >>is just a script that gets run when the system boots. > >Technically, on BSD/OS systems, you are wrong. >(Since this is a BSD/OS newsgroup, I think it is safe to draw >this conclusion about choice of operating system.) Perhaps I should have been a little more explicit. What I mean to say is that netstart is not a reference database - there is no program that is constantly reading netstart to find out how it should behave. Contrast with some systems that have a database for system configuration: the active-right-now configuration and the after-next-reboot configuration are stored in the same place on those systems. You can't change one without changing the other. >/etc/netstart sets various environmental variables that effect >what daemons get started from later in /etc/rc, and more importantly, >what arguments some of those programs get run with. > >In that sense, /etc/rc "looks at" the variables /etc/netstart >sets and acts differently on the basis of those variables. > >To trace down all the changes that one might have to perform by >hand after editting /etc/netstart, you'll have to grunge around >in /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local as well. Totally correct, of course.