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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 23:18:07 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199511202143.NAA00149@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 20, 95 01:43:57 pm
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> >
> >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.
> 
>    And if I do 2 make installs before rebooting?

You are completely right. But there is no real solution to this problem.
My goal with the initial commit was to be able to do a make install and
schedule a reboot later on. So basically the commit is as broken as the
make install, yet it fixes the problem of being able to schedule the reboot.

-Guido