On Fri, Aug 22, 1997 at 01:35:21AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
: On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Brian Rice wrote:
:
: > > >From what I've seen, just for upgrade/recovery purposes....though don't X
: > > terminals do this sort of thing on every boot?
: >
: > Yes, but they have a config file they either tftp or NFS get at boot time.
: > Oh boy, I can see where this is headed ... (*duck*)
:
: So you're saying in ComOs 3.8, we'll not only be able to netboot on every
: boot, but also maintain our configs as ASCII files on our TFTP server such
: that we can edit the text config files and just reboot each portmaster to
: reconfigure it? :)
Probably this is possible with 3.7 too.
Some ugly hack ... but should work.
Take bootpd/dhcpd/rarpd (or whatever daemon is responsible for RARP on
your system) and hack it to execute some external program if it
answered a RARP request.
This program than could get the IP and some additional parameters passed
and could call pmcommand in turn to let the PM tftp it's
config file (and as I experienced, this config is a simple
file with PM commands ... (dunno if it's documented somewhere)).
Heiko
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