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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 08:42:28 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ad0 drivers revisited 
Message-ID:  <200005241542.e4OFgte22439@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 2000 11:05:00 EDT." <20000524110500.B16056@pir.net> 

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In message <20000524110500.B16056@pir.net>, Peter Radcliffe writes:
> Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> probably
>  said:
> > > Have you all done a "man sysctl.conf"
> > Actually, have you?  Read it and see why it will probably not help here.
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>      The /etc/sysctl.conf file is read in when the system goes into multi-use
> r
>      mode to set default settings for the kernel.  The /etc/sysctl.conf is in
> 
> You want it to happen before the system goes multiuser, hence putting
> /sbin/sysctl right at the start of /etc/rc
> 
> Unless you see the <old-modes>, -> <new-modes> line, it isn't actually
> happening.
> 
> I have it as the first non-comment in /etc/rc on my laptop (the only
> IDE disk machine I have) and it works for me.

Exactly.  You want to set it long before the system goes multi-user, 
preferably just after boot.  A sysctl like this one should be settable 
in loader.conf or be a boot argument.


Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





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