From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 11:32:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.disney.com (mail11.disney.com [208.246.35.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE40F37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from panic10.noceast.dws.disney.com (panic10.corp.disney.com [153.6.129.169]) by mail11.disney.com (Switch-2.0.1/Switch-2.0.1) with SMTP id f6CIuft00764 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.30.50.1] by panic.noceast.dws.disney.com with ESMTP for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:14:54 -0400 Received: from plio.fan.fa.disney.com (plio.fan.fa.disney.com [153.7.118.2]) by pecos.fa.disney.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6CIIVs08718 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:18:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.fan.fa.disney.com (mercury.fan.fa.disney.com [153.7.119.1]) by plio.fan.fa.disney.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA16308 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com by mercury.fan.fa.disney.com for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:14:52 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Jim Pirzyk Organization: Walt Disney Feature Animation To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: kern.bootfile sysctl and installing new kernel Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:14:52 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071211145201.00645@snoopy> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I though in the past when you installed a new kernel that the sysctl kern.bootfile was changed to be /kernel.old (this is under FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE), but looking at the makefile, this is no longer the case. Was this done for a reason? - JimP -- --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.10 2001/05/17 23:38:49 Jim.Pirzyk Exp $ __o Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com ------------- pirzyk@freebsd.org _'\<,_ Senior Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Feature Animation (*)/ (*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message