From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 22:18:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08585 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08579 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA22309 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:17:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: rc.sysctl? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can anybody think of a good reason not to have something like /etc/rc.sysctl that contains any sysctl -w's that you want to have run before you start up a bunch of daemons? There doesn't seem to be any good place to put them. rc.local is too late, since things like keepalive, send/recvspace, and others may need to be set before things like sendmail start up. Seems trivial to add, and potentially useful. (Of course, run levels ala solaris would solve this problem as well, but that's another argument for another time and place).