From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Feb 21 17:55:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC61737B401; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:55:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B9843F3F; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:55:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mobile.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with SMTP id h1M1tA9h004742; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:55:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:55:21 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/48482: using deprecated sysctl option in FAQ Message-Id: <20030221205521.2b41519d.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200302220150.h1M1o9lE046749@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200302220150.h1M1o9lE046749@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:50:09 -0800 (PST) Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > The following reply was made to PR docs/48482; it has been noted by > GNATS. > > From: Giorgos Keramidas > To: "Denis N. Peplin" > Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: docs/48482: using deprecated sysctl option in FAQ > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:49:20 +0200 > > On 2003-02-20 13:19, "Denis N. Peplin" wrote: > > from > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT > > # sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 > > > > and from man sysctl: > > The -w option has been deprecated and is silently ignored. > > Well, just to be on the safe side here, since the FAQ is supposed to > document stuff for previous versions too, can we leave it there? Or > perhaps, add a small note that "versions of FreeBSD newer than 4.4 > don't need -w to work". > > NOTE: I haven't checked when -w was deprecated on the 4.X branch, but > we can do that later, if this looks a nice idea, I guess. > My 3 day old RELENG_4 build has the same thing as the HEAD version of sysctl(8). So basicly its gone, I don't have a cvs history for you, but if we are following 4.8 then this should be probly be removed. I'll leave it all up to you :) -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message