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Subject: Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl
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On 19 Dec 2012 19:37, "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore
> <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something
> > conceptually similar to
> >
> >    cat /etc/sysctl.d/* /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -f -
> >
> > Along with this (untested) patch to make sysctl understand "-f -".
> >
> > Hmmm, is /dev/stdin available as early as sysctl.conf runs?  If not, the
> > attached patch isn't going to work.
>
>     Why not just make sysctl understand multiple -f options? You're
> probably going to run into more problems parsing from /dev/stdin and
> it's going to obfuscate things a lot dealing with which file came
> last, feeding back diagnostic info, etc.
>     Please don't "linuxise" this tool.

I seem to recall cpio being around a lot before Linux... Our sh also
accepts piped scripts.  It's useful.

ssh host cat file | sysctl -f -

Chris