All functionality from the previous system has been preserved, and
users should still customize their system boot with the familiar
methods, rc.conf, rc.conf.local, rc.firewall, sysctl.conf, etc.
Users who have customized versions of scripts that have been removed
should take great care when upgrading, since the compatibility code
that used those old scripts has also been removed.
Instead, load them as part of the rc.d system. This allows us to prioritize
the initidiskless script so it runs before the configuration files are loaded
and allows us to get rid of the exit 2 hack in /etc/rc. The exit 2 never
worked anyway since it did not unset the prior configuration, causing the
diskless code to not operate properly.
Do a major cleanup and revamping of the diskless code for RCNG. This will
be backported to the non-RCNG scripts as well as -stable.
With suggestions from: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
MFC after: 7 days
background fsck. The delay defaults to sixty seconds to allow
large applications such as the X server to start before disk I/O
bandwidth is monopolized by fsck.
Submitted by: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
a per-machine or per-cluster (with different ways of expressing what's
part of a cluster) basis. In order for this to be effective, rc.conf
has to be reread after initdiskless is finished. Implement this by
adding a hook to etc/rc which rereads rc.conf by request. This can
also be implemented by renaming initdiskless to initdiskless.sh and
sourcing rc.conf there manually, but it was decided that, that would
be uglier than a hook in etc/rc.
Developed in concert with: gordon
under way to move the remnants of the a.out toolchain to ports. As the
comment in src/Makefile said, this stuff is deprecated and one should not
expect this to remain beyond 4.0-REL. It has already lasted WAY beyond
that.
Notable exceptions:
gcc - I have not touched the a.out generation stuff there.
ldd/ldconfig - still have some code to interface with a.out rtld.
old as/ld/etc - I have not removed these yet, pending their move to ports.
some includes - necessary for ldd/ldconfig for now.
Tested on: i386 (extensively), alpha
xntpd_* -> ntpd_*
portmap_* -> rpcbind_*
Also change single_mountd_enable to mountd_enable.
We also include shims for all the old variable names.
Submitted by: Mike Makonnen <makonnen@pacbell.net>
rm -f /tmp/.X11-unix/*
If /tmp/.X11-unix didn't already exist, a user could symlink it to a directory
with files that he wants to wipe out, and wait for next reboot.
Reported by: lumpy <lumpy@the.whole.net>
around. If the kernel boots successfully, the record of this kernel
is erased, it is intended to be a one-shot option for testing
kernels.
This could be improved by having the loader remove the record of
the next kernel to boot, it is currently removed in /etc/rc immediately
after disks are mounted r/w.
I'd like to MFC this before the 4.6 freeze unless there is violent
objection.
Reviewed by: Several on IRC
MFC after: 4 days
again."
As an alternative to sendmail_enable=NONE, solve the boot time problem
for non-sendmail users completely by moving all of the sendmail startup
code from /etc/rc to /etc/rc.sendmail. The source for that script will
be kept in src/etc/sendmail/rc.sendmail so make.conf's NO_SENDMAIL will
prevent it from being installed. A new rc.conf variable,
mta_start_script specifies the script to run to start the user's
preferred MTA. For backward compatibility, it will default to
/etc/rc.sendmail. The specified script is called out of /etc/rc after
checking to make sure it exists. A new rc.sendmail.8 man page has also
been added which now houses the sendmail_* variable descriptions
formerly in rc.conf.5.
Use /etc/rc.sendmail in /etc/mail/Makefile to reduce code duplication.
Reviewed by: -current, -stable, obrien, peter, ru
MFC after: 1 week
at boot time.
Instead of rc.conf's sendmail_enable only accepting YES or NO, it can now
also accept NONE. If set to NONE, none of the other sendmail related
startup items will be done.
Remove an extra queue running daemon might be started that wasn't necessary
(it didn't hurt anything but it wasn't needed).
The new logic is:
# MTA
if ${sendmail_enable} == NONE
# Do nothing
else if ${sendmail_enable} == YES
start sendmail with ${sendmail_flags}
else if ${sendmail_submit_enable} == YES
start sendmail with ${sendmail_submit_flags}
else if ${sendmail_outbound_enable} == YES
start sendmail with ${sendmail_outbound_flags}
endif
# MSP Queue Runner
if ${sendmail_enable} != NONE &&
[ -r /etc/mail/submit.cf] && ${sendmail_msp_queue_enable} == YES
start sendmail with ${sendmail_msp_queue_flags}
endif
Discussed with: Thomas Quinot <Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG>,
Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
MFC after: 1 week
administrator wishes to run commands outside of the PATH, he should
use a full pathname for the executable or set the PATH as appropriate
in any local startup scripts.
PR: misc/35770
addition, take out the checks on the $dumpdev. dumpon(8) behaves well
if given a non-existent filename. It gives a nice error message which
is better rather than the current silent failure.
Reviewed by: des
argument. Don't fail silently, but let savecore(8) make noise. It
won't behave badly, it doesn't need protection.
At the same time, allow the administrator to have dumpdev enabled
while dumpdir (savecore(8)) is disabled and document how to do it.
PR: conf/35725
at boot (sendmail_enable=NO), a localhost-only daemon may started
(sendmail_submit_enable) as it is needed to accept mail from command line
submissions. If this isn't desired, see etc/mail/README for more hints.
Optionally (sendmail_msp_queue_enable) start a queue runner for the
submission queue in case a daemon isn't available to accept command line
submitted mail at submission time.
Note that the syslog labels for all of these sendmail processes have been
uniquified for easier log parsing.
Checking for the existence of sendmail.cf is rather silly when someone
is using the mailwrapper(8) to run a mail daemon that is not actually
sendmail(8). It is also probably better to let sendmail(8) actually
try to start and error out if the administrator has
'sendmail_enable="YES"' but no sendmail.conf. At present, it would
fail silently.
Reviewed by: gshapiro
MFC after: 2 days
This change was submitted to the freebsd-audit mailing list for review
but received no feedback. Hindsight-enabled reviews are welcome.
PR: conf/31358
Submitted: Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>
types (networkfs_types) with a version that includes the original
list.
This increases the scope for user error and also means that systems with
networkfs_types set in /etc/rc.conf will not benefit from changes to the
list in /etc/defaults/rc.conf on upgrade.
Instead, store the default list in /etc/rc itself and allow the operator
to append to that list by specifying her own list in networkfs_types.
Rename networkfs_types to extra_netfs_types accordingly, as the new name
better describes the purpose of the variable. Default the value to
'NO'.
the network is initialized. This was first implemented in rev 1.268
of src/etc/rc, but was backed out at wollman's request.
The objection was that the right place for the fix is in mount(8).
Having looked at that problem, I find it hard to believe that
the hoops one would have to jump through can be justified by the
desire for purity alone.
Note that there are reported issues surrounding nfsclient kernel
support and mount_nfs(8), which currently make NFS an ugly exception
to the general case.
With this change, systems with non-NFS network filesystems configured
for mounting on startup in /etc/fstab are no longer guaranteed to
fail on startup.
already set (e.g. a failed/skipped mergemaster run during an upgrade).
Without this, if script_name_sep was not set in the rc.conf files,
local scripts will not be executed on startup or shutdown.
PR: misc/32687
Submitted by: Nicholas Paufler <echofox@discordia.ca> (the problem)
Sheldon Hearn (the idea behind the fix)
Reviewed by: sheldonh
MFC after: 1 week