Colin, Sounds useful: We have nanobsd images that configure a hard disk if present, but obviously only need to be run once. However: NanoBSD stores uses a memory disk for /etc and stores it's permanent scripts in /conf/* (/etc/rc.initdiskless) and/or /cfg (NanoBSD) so I doubt whether the 'embedded systems' argument is of much use, as deleting the script or flagging 'firstboot' is non-permanent. Nick Hibma nick_at_van-laarhoven.org Want to feel like going on a holiday tomorrow? Try GTD. On 14 Oct 2013, at 00:58, Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've attached a very simple patch which makes /etc/rc: > > 1. Skip any rc.d scripts with the "firstboot" keyword if /var/db/firstboot > does not exist, > > 2. If /var/db/firstboot and /var/db/firstboot-reboot exist after running rc.d > scripts, reboot. > > 3. Delete /var/db/firstboot (and firstboot-reboot) after the first boot. > > The purpose of this is to support "run on first boot" rc.d scripts. These can > be useful for both virtual machines and embedded systems; unlike conventional > desktops and servers, these may have a lengthy gap between "installing" and > "turning on" the system. > > As examples of what such scripts could do: > > * In Amazon EC2, I use a "first boot" script to download an SSH public key > from EC2 so that users can log in to newly provisioned EC2 instances. > > * Now that (starting from 10.0-BETA1) it is possible to use FreeBSD Update > to update everything on EC2 instances, I'm planning on writing a script which > runs 'freebsd-update fetch install' when the system first boots, and then > reboots if there were updates installed. (I imagine this would be useful > to other embedded / VM providers too.) > > * Once packages are provided (properly) for 10.0 I'd like to allow people to > specify a list of packages they want installed onto an EC2 instance and have > them downloaded and installed when the EC2 instance launches. > > I'd like to get this into HEAD in the near future in the hope that I can > convince re_at_ that this is a simple enough (and safe enough) change to merge > before 10.0-RELEASE. > > Comments? > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid > <firstboot.patch>_______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Mon Oct 14 2013 - 05:59:54 UTC
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