RPC.BOOTPARAMD(8) | System Manager's Manual | RPC.BOOTPARAMD(8) |
bootparamd
,
rpc.bootparamd
— boot
parameter server
bootparamd |
[-ds ] [-i
interface] [-r
router] [-f
file] |
bootparamd
is a server process that
provides information to diskless clients necessary for booting. It consults
the file “/etc/bootparams”. It should
normally be started from
“/etc/rc”.
This version will allow the use of aliases on the hostname in the “/etc/bootparams” file. The hostname returned in response to the booting client's whoami request will be the name that appears in the config file, not the canonical name. In this way you can keep the answer short enough so that machines that cannot handle long hostnames won't fail during boot.
While parsing, if a line containing just ``+'' is found, and the YP subsystem is active, the YP map bootparams will be searched immediately.
-d
-i
interfacebootparamd
picks the first IPv4 address it finds
on the system by default. With -i
, you can control
which interface to be used to obtain the default router address.
-r
overrides -i
.-s
-r
-f
Originally written by Klas Heggemann ⟨klas@nada.kth.se⟩.
You may find the syslog messages too verbose.
It's not clear if the non-canonical hack mentioned above is a good idea.
January 8, 1994 | NetBSD 10.99 |