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From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: kern.bootfile...
In-Reply-To: <199906072329.DAA00452@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> from Dmitrij Tejblum at "Jun 8, 1999 03:29:13 am"
To: dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru (Dmitrij Tejblum)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:40:50 -0600 (MDT)
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Dmitrij Tejblum wrote...
> "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
> > 
> > When booting from an alternate kernel this afternoon, I noticed that the
> > kern.bootfile sysctl variable isn't getting set properly.
> > 
> > I had to manually do the following:
> > 
> > sysctl -w kern.bootfile=/kernel.test
> > 
> > Before netstat would work.
> > 
> > This is with -current from Saturday on a 433au.  I booted the other kernel
> > by typing this at the loader prompt:
> > 
> > boot kernel.test
> 
> Ugh, I thought I fixed it in May 11 (in rev.1.41 of machdep.c). One of 
> us apparently do something wrong. What was the value of kern.bootfile 
> before you set it manually?

It was "/kernel".  I can reproduce it if you'd like me to..

netstat -i complained until I reset the variable.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
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