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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 20:00:35 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199511151354.FAA00756@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 15, 95 05:54:22 am
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>    The sysctl crap in the Makefile is bogus and should be removed. My kernel
> is often not called "/kernel" and pretending that it was is wrong. The bootfile
> name should be read-only and the Makefile should not be messing with it.
> 

I still dont like the fact that installing a new kernel with make install
can make all kinds of programs useless. Perhaps a better way of
doing things is first check if /kernel is the kernel being used. If so, and
if it is moved to kernel.old, sysctl should be called according to me.

-Guido