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Defining the installation environment
Emulab Installation Documentation
Defining the installation environment
Creating the Definitions File
In order to describe your type of installation environment, you must create a definitions (or 'defs') file. The defs file defines such things as the hostnames of your boss and ops servers, what kind of network you will be running on, and e-mail addresses that certain types of mail will be sent to.
It will be helpful to use defs-example as a template. It contains comments which explain the important variables to set.
Important note for FreeBSD 10 installs: make sure that you set the variable NSVERIFY to 0.