From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 5 12:57:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CAB37B404; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:57:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g15KvQi10950; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:57:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g15KvML31943; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:57:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 13:56:58 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020205.135658.102576700.imp@village.org> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, cristjc@earthlink.net Cc: mike@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting sysctl(8)'s in rc.conf From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020205121345.B368@gohan.cjclark.org> References: <20020205015412.H6496@espresso.q9media.com> <20020205.085412.88169750.imp@village.org> <20020205121345.B368@gohan.cjclark.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020205121345.B368@gohan.cjclark.org> "Crist J. Clark" writes: : Perhaps a better approach would be to put them all in : /etc/sysctl.conf, but change /etc/sysctl.conf's format to support : grouping different variables to be loaded at different times : (maintaining back-compatibility of course). No. A better approach would be to make those items that are sysctls in modules also TUNABLES, and then the problem goes away. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message