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To: James FitzGibbon <james@else.net>
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Subject: Re: Unknow oid in sysctl 
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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 21:38:32 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> 
> Starting about a week ago in current, I noticed that when 'make 
> install'ing my kernels, it fails on the line
> 
> sysctl -w kernel.bootfile=/kernel.old
> 
> with the message
> 
> sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.bootfile'
> 
> If I manually do the install line, it seems to work, but I'm unsure as to 
> why this fails.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

recompile sysctl(8)
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