From owner-freebsd-audit Tue Jun 19 3:17:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BC9B37B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:17:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 39895 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Jun 2001 10:16:01 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:16:01 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new kldpath(8): display/modify the module search path Message-ID: <20010619131601.A39467@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , audit@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010618151831.J1713@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200106190017.f5J0H8R17337@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106190017.f5J0H8R17337@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:16:46PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:16:46PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <20010618151831.J1713@ringworld.oblivion.bg>, Peter Pentchev > writes: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:13:24PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > Excuse me, but what's wrong with sysctl(8) editing kern.module_path? > > > > Well, as I noted at the start of the message, this is a scripts-friendly > > utility - it allows adding/removing/inserting individual paths without > > the need to parse the whole. > > But it could be a script friendly Perl script that calls sysctl. Right? Not really; not if it's in /sbin, not if it's used at startup time. Perl might not be available early in the boot process. Well, ok, so the modules path does not really need not be changed so early, but why not give admins the chance to create bullet-shaped holes in their lower appendages, if they should so desire.. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence contradicts itself - or rather - well, no, actually it doesn't! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message