From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 2 5:37:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E378637B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 05:37:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE9443E6A for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 05:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g92CbGs06459; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:37:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g92CbGb25941; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:37:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g92CbDx25929; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:37:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D9AE859.8050209@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 07:36:41 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Lippert Cc: helmut_gruder@hotmail.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Doc update References: <200210021154.EAA04987@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ross Lippert wrote: > Tangent: > Let me also say that it was something of a surprise to find out that > much of what I used to reconfigure the kernel for can be taken care of > by just fiddling with loader.conf (though I don't know if apm falls > into that), so I think I could criticize chapter 9 for not having a > section "do you really need to rebuild the kernel" to explain this. That's actually a really good idea.. I've wondered that for a while. I rebuild the kernel, reboot, and then the next day I see someone tweaking some knob that did the same thing.. Doh! It would be great to have a list of "no need to build the kernel if you are just trying to do these things:" items.. That would save a lot of time. Who would know that list? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Skydiving - safer than the stock market. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message