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Profiles,
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Nico Schottelius, 2005-06-04
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1. What are profiles?
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2. How to use profiles?
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3. How to configure profiles?
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4. Some examples
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1. What are profiles?
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Profiles are different configurations for different scenarios.
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This means you can use the 'home' profile to setup things
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differently than at work, where you would use either
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no profile (standard configuration) or the 'work' profile.
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2. How to use profiles?
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Simply pass 'cprofile:PROFILENAME' (like cprofile:home) to cinit.
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How to pass argumenents to cinit? Under Linux the init-system
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gets the kernel arguments (see linux.kernel.eats.arguments) as arguments.
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So you can use
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kernel /usr/src/linux/vmlinuz cprofile:work (grub1,grub2)
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append="cprofile:work" (LILO,yaboot)
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Other Unices should work like Linux, please consult your local
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documentation.
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3. How to configure profiles?
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It's very simple: Normally cinit would call /etc/cinit/init as
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primary service and solve all dependencies. If you pass
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cprofile=wireless to it, cinit will start /etc/cinit/wireless as
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primary service instead.
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[Note: /etc/cinit/yourprofile is the service that will be started.
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You need/should/must NOT create /etc/cinit/yourprofile/init!]
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So the only thing you have to do is to create a service directory
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below /etc/cinit with the name of the profile you want to use.
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You can simply copy the init-dir and use it as a template:
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ei # cd /etc/cinit; rsync -a init yourprofile
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Standard cp will copy the linked files, not the links, that's why I use rsync
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You could also use tar:
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ei # cd /etc/cinit/init; tar c . | (mkdir ../yp; cd ../yp; tar x )
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That's it!
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4. Some examples
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Here are some examples we found in #cLinux:
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profile name what it does
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musibox only start mp3blaster
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terminal start only minicom, which opens the serial line
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net-terminal start a respawning shell script, which starts
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ssh to the selected host
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video start X+mplayer, which plays the dvd/cdrom
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wireless What to start when beeing in an unknown wlan
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home/work selected services (nfs, ip, ...) for home or work
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