Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:46:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.sysctl? Message-ID: <199709280146.SAA28124@dog.farm.org>
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In article <199709260733.RAA00370@word.smith.net.au> you wrote: > You might want to consider a more generalised sysctl tweaking mechanism > , eg. one that consumed variables of the form 'sysctl_X' where X was a > monotonically increasing value starting with 0. You could handle these > early on in rc, just after rc.conf is sourced. This would still suffer > from the "sysctl is not in /sbin" problem for people using NFS for /usr. How about committing this?? # /usr/src/sbin/sysctl/Makefile DIR=${.CURDIR}/../../usr.sbin/sysctl CFLAGS+=-static NOMAN=yes .PATH: ${DIR} .include "${DIR}/Makefile" (tested, works, used; patch for /usr/src/sbin/Makefile is obvious) There are many things which can be done with sysctl and are potentially useful from single-user... say, if I need special IP options for NFS mounts, etc.?? # ls -la /sbin/sysctl -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 57344 27 ÓÅÎ 18:43 /sbin/sysctl # ls -la /usr/sbin/sysctl -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 27 ÉÀÎ 19:55 /usr/sbin/sysctl # Please, anybody who wants to make life easier for diskless boxes, do it!
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