From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 17 10:35: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71D437B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:34:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.microcell.ca (gatekeeper.microcell.ca [205.151.8.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FF943FBD for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:34:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from SoHo@admin.fido.ca) Received: from mailserv.microcell.ca (mailserv.microcell.ca [10.2.0.87]) by gatekeeper.microcell.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A109016CCD; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:34:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailserv.microcell.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id C72DF16BCF; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:34:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from lenard.admin.fido.ca (lamus.fido.ca [10.0.1.45]) by mailserv.microcell.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E7616BCF; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:34:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from magni.microcell.ca (magni.microcell.ca [10.6.22.102]) by lenard.admin.fido.ca (SMTP_Gateway) with ESMTP id CB28F47D3C; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:34:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from magni.microcell.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by magni.microcell.ca (8.12.6/8.12.7) with SMTP id h2HIXOfa061032; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:33:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from SoHo@admin.fido.ca) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:33:24 -0500 From: Edmond Baroud To: Anti Cc: cbradski@comcast.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd messages printed to screen during boot. Message-Id: <20030317133324.527072f2.SoHo@admin.fido.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030317121434.06277151.fearow@attbi.com> References: <20030314132328.371e4621.cbradski@comcast.net> <20030314163449.68cfadaa.SoHo@admin.fido.ca> <20030317121434.06277151.fearow@attbi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.64 2002/10/22 16:37:04 bre Exp $ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG it happens with me when I do: sysctl sysctl, I figured out that my sysctl.conf args needed to be updated accordingly to the rc.sysctl version. I beleive there's a command being executed at startup somewhere, try this: tail ur /var/log/messages and execute a "sysctl sysctl" and tell me if u dont see the "weird messages" again. Ed. On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:14:34 -0600 Anti wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:34:49 -0500 > Edmond Baroud wrote: > > > your uname shows that you have installed a kernel recently (10 march): > > I dont know in which version this modification took place in 4.x but the /etc/rc.sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf have changed. > > I am guessing that you have the "command" sysctl in front of your sysctl variables and values in /etc/sysctl.conf > > or that you have ignored the installation of the new rc.sysctl when you mergemaster'd > > in brief, your sysctl is not setting the variables you have on startup because their startup scripts have changed and is showing the output of all kernel variables at boot time. > > > > hope this helps, > > > > Ed. > > > so, nobody knows the real cause of this? > -- Edmond Baroud UNIX Systems Admin mailto:SoHo@admin.fido.ca Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message