Tim Kientzle wrote: > I'm pretty comfortable with the failsafes that we > have in place: > * /sbin/init is static > * If /bin/sh fails, /rescue/sh can be run > * /rescue provides a complete set of statically-linked > sysadmin utilities that should be sufficient > for recovering a damaged system. > > There are a few things I'd like to see: > * It would be nice if the kernel noticed that /sbin/init > failed too quickly and prompted the user for an alternate > init. That would open the door to a dynamic or just more > ambitious /sbin/init, since you could always fall back > to /rescue/init for recovery. > * /rescue/vi is currently unusable if /usr is missing because > the termcap database is in /usr. One possibility > would be to build a couple of default termcap entries > into ncurses or into vi. Just put a tiny termcap file in /rescue (i.e. termcap.rescue) that contains 5 or 6 of the most common terminal types (cons25, vt102, etc), and have /rescue/vi default to cons25. That is cleaner than hard coding them into /rescue/vi. Richard Coleman richardcoleman_at_mindspring.comReceived on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 17:40:27 UTC
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