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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.pbi.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.170.214.67!trebuchet.va.pubnix.com!not-for-mail From: lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: adding IP to netstart w/o rebooting Date: 21 Mar 1997 17:25:54 -0500 Organization: UUNET Technologies -- Fairfax, Virginia, USA Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5gv1ti$pak@arrow.va.pubnix.com> References: <jpdavidE7DB5n.9LB@netcom.com> <5gun6q$p4r@troma.rv.tis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arrow.va.pubnix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6438 Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@troma.rv.tis.com> wrote: >hockey fan <jpdavid@netcom.com> wrote: >>[... snip ...] > >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.) /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. -Kurt (courtesy cc: sent via email as well) -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@va.pubnix.com) UUCP: <Earth>!uunet!lidl */ /* Don't confuse my opinions with my employer's opinions! */ /* We may just have to destroy USENET, in order to save it. */