From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 24 8: 5:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A7C37BCC2 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 08:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 12uciT-0004PK-00 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 24 May 2000 11:05:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:05:00 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad0 drivers revisited Message-ID: <20000524110500.B16056@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <392AFEA3.46FDBDAD@3-cities.com> <200005241345.e4ODjqG21909@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sent-via: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200005241345.e4ODjqG21909@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 06:45:10AM -0700 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group probably said: > > Have you all done a "man sysctl.conf" > Actually, have you? Read it and see why it will probably not help here. DESCRIPTION The /etc/sysctl.conf file is read in when the system goes into multi-user mode to set default settings for the kernel. The /etc/sysctl.conf is in You want it to happen before the system goes multiuser, hence putting /sbin/sysctl right at the start of /etc/rc Unless you see the , -> line, it isn't actually happening. I have it as the first non-comment in /etc/rc on my laptop (the only IDE disk machine I have) and it works for me. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message