From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 24 8:44: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6FA37BCC3 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 08:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id IAA25750 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 08:44:00 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda25748; Wed May 24 08:43:46 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA09750 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 08:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdMi9748; Wed May 24 08:42:55 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.10.1/8.9.1) id e4OFgte22439 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 08:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005241542.e4OFgte22439@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdR22435; Wed May 24 08:42:29 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad0 drivers revisited In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 2000 11:05:00 EDT." <20000524110500.B16056@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 08:42:28 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000524110500.B16056@pir.net>, Peter Radcliffe writes: > 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-use > r > 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. Exactly. You want to set it long before the system goes multi-user, preferably just after boot. A sysctl like this one should be settable in loader.conf or be a boot argument. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message