From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 7:53:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7B637B407 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 07:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2612E45F for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:53:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f5PEr7H34188; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:53:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) X-Authentication-Warning: onceler.kciLink.com: khera set sender to khera@kcilink.com using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysctl variables References: <005a01c0fba0$6aa85610$0a00a8c0@midgar> <3B3423BE.64258A0@iowna.com> From: Vivek Khera Date: 25 Jun 2001 10:53:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3B3423BE.64258A0@iowna.com> Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "BM" == Bill Moran writes: BM> Mario Doria wrote: >> >> Where is the best place to change sysctl variables in a system? Can I do it >> from /boot/defaults/loader.conf? Never alter the defaults/* files. Create /boot/loader.conf and put your changes there. BM> /etc/sysctl.conf BM> There's a man page for it. Some sysctls need to happen in /boot/loader.conf, eg, hw.ata.atapi_dma -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message