Re: .unconfigure, or resetting system config

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> 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.
>

Does it blow things up like solaris' sysunconfig does too?

That'd be real neat if it did :)

-n

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