From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 19 5:41:19 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E30637B422; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 05:40:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2JDZgk60844; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:35:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:35:42 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Doug Barton , "Crist J. Clark" , Makoto Matsushita , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, imp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc In-Reply-To: <20020318194237.A18907@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The sections model I'm particularly interested in would associated MIB entries with kernel modules, so that on loading a module (perhaps just in boot, perhaps more generally), those settings would be set after kldload returned. Of course, modules can get loadeed in a variety of ways (mount, etc) so we might have to think a bit more. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:59:49PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > > I still kind of like the idea of breaking /etc/sysctl.conf into > > > sections > > > > The problem with that approach is that it requires users to know > > at which stages in the process different mibs are available to twiddle. I > > think that's asking too much. > > Totally agreed. I guess the fix to that, though, is for someone to > create a config file that seperated the MIB entries into "sections". > Thus "/etc/rc.sysctl first" would know to DTRT w/o the user having to. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message