From owner-freebsd-audit Tue Jun 19 23:26:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6D137B406; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:26:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.138.115.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.138.115]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA19809; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B304241.DE787305@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:27:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: John Baldwin , Peter Pentchev , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new kldpath(8): display/modify the module search path References: <3B2F958E.BC556A1E@mindspring.com> <15151.41572.721434.703837@nomad.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Nate Williams wrote: > > Having to reboot to make things work really, really sucks -- > > and that is often necessary if you build code from the net, > > which FreeBSD has mistakenly included as part os the base > > system monolith. OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and the resolver library > > are three examples that leap lithely to mind. > > Terry, it's simple to not have to reboot. Many ports already > do this, but a 'ldconfig -R' tells it to re-scan the known > directories to pickup new entries, which can be done at any > time (as root of course). Didn't address this... This doesn't fix the "replace /lib with /lib.new" problem; think "mount(2)"... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message