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diff --git a/share/examples/diskless/ME b/share/examples/diskless/ME deleted file mode 100644 index 85178e088a541..0000000000000 --- a/share/examples/diskless/ME +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ - -When templating, /conf/ME is typically a softlink to -/conf/<appropriate-machine>. When doing a diskless boot, /conf/ME is -retargeted by /etc/rc.diskless1 from pointing to the server to pointing -to the client's directory, /conf/<ip-address-of-client>. The retargeting -is accomplished through an MFS -o union mount. - -When templating, this softlink should be different for each machine. -When doing a diskless boot, this softlink is typically part of the / NFS -mount from the server and points to the server's conf directory, but gets -retargeted during the /etc/rc.diskless1 phase. - -System-wide configuration files must generally be targeted through /conf/ME. -For example, your /etc/rc.conf.local should become a softlink to -/conf/ME/rc.conf.local and your real rc.conf.local should go into the -appropriate /conf/<appropriate-machine> directory. This is also true of -/etc/rc.local, /etc/fstab, /etc/syslog.conf, /etc/ccd.conf, /etc/ipfw.conf, -/etc/motd, /etc/resolv.conf, and possibly even /etc/ttys ( if you want -to start an X session up on boot on certain of your machines ). - -When templating, you duplicate your / and /usr partitions on each machine's -local disk from a single master ( assuming /var and /home reside elsewhere ), -EXCEPT for the /conf/ME softlink. The /conf/ME softlink is the only thing -on / that should be different for each machine. - -There are often categories of configuration files. For example, all of your -shell machines may use one resolv.conf while all of your mail proxies may -use another. Configuration files can be categorized fairly easily through -/conf/HT.<category> directories. You put the actual configuration file in -/conf/HT.<category> and make a softlink from -/conf/ME/<appropriate-machines>/config-file to "../HT.<category/config-file". -This means that access to these files tends to run through more then one -softlink. The advantage is that for all the complexity of your /conf -directory hierarchy, most of your common config files exist in only one place -in reality. - - |