Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:46:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.sysctl? Message-ID: <199709280146.SAA28124@dog.farm.org>
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In article <199709260733.RAA00370@word.smith.net.au> you wrote:
> You might want to consider a more generalised sysctl tweaking mechanism
> , eg. one that consumed variables of the form 'sysctl_X' where X was a
> monotonically increasing value starting with 0. You could handle these
> early on in rc, just after rc.conf is sourced. This would still suffer
> from the "sysctl is not in /sbin" problem for people using NFS for /usr.
How about committing this??
# /usr/src/sbin/sysctl/Makefile
DIR=${.CURDIR}/../../usr.sbin/sysctl
CFLAGS+=-static
NOMAN=yes
.PATH: ${DIR}
.include "${DIR}/Makefile"
(tested, works, used; patch for /usr/src/sbin/Makefile is obvious)
There are many things which can be done with sysctl and are potentially
useful from single-user... say, if I need special IP options for NFS
mounts, etc.??
# ls -la /sbin/sysctl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 57344 27 ÓÅÎ 18:43 /sbin/sysctl
# ls -la /usr/sbin/sysctl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 27 ÉÀÎ 19:55 /usr/sbin/sysctl
#
Please, anybody who wants to make life easier for diskless boxes, do it!
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