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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Subject: Re: conf/44282: /etc/rc.d/sysctl script works incorrectly in case of 
 non-existent  MIB
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The following reply was made to PR conf/44282; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, mokr@mokr.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: conf/44282: /etc/rc.d/sysctl script works incorrectly in case of 
 non-existent  MIB
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:24:19 -0700

 This appears to be an attempt to preserve /etc/rc.sysctl's
 original functionality, which was to run twice -- the early
 run would not complain about illegal sysctl variables, presumably to
 allow sysctl.conf to contain variables that were in modules that would
 be loaded later.
 
 If one runs "/etc/rc.d/sysctl lastload", you get the right behavior --
 however, there doesn't seem to be any provision to ever run
 "/etc/rc.d/sysctl lastload".  I don't know enough about the rc.d system
 to know how to fix it -- perhaps an /etc/rc.d/sysctllast which runs
 /etc/rc.d/sysctl lastload?
 
 Alternately, if we are going to abandon the multiple sysctl.conf loads,
 the elif should just be turned into an else, the additional test of $?
 is not necessary.
 
   Bill

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