Re: .unconfigure, or resetting system config

Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:34:43 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.taroon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Vanco, Don (don.vanco-tWnNlxMdGQNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]) said: 
> At one point in time I thought that there was a little hook in the init
> structure that, if a file in / named ".unconfigure" was present, the
> user would be queried on boot for thinks like IP data and root password.
> I know that firstboot exists now for relatively mundane things like TZ
> and adding packages, but is there still a tool that will allow a system
> to boot and query the user for sysconfig-type info?

As Jeremy mentioned, there is reconfigsys, there is also
/.unconfigured (your memory was pretty close.) See rc.sysinit for
details on that.

Bill

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