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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: terse output from sysctl in netstart
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 02:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199506250917.CAA00658@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Jun 25, 95 02:17:36 am
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> 
> The following lines are in /etc/netstart:
> 
> ===
> if [ -n "$tcp_extensions" -a "x$tcp_extensions" = "xNO" ] ; then
> 	sysctl -nw net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0
> 	sysctl -nw net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0
> fi
> ===
> 
> The output from these lines look like:
> 
> ===
> 0
> 0
> ===
> 
> Which looks more than a little puzzling during bootup.
> 
> Will anyone scream bloody murder if I take out the `n' from the flags?
> Then the output will be like

No, please go ahead, it won't conflict with my other changes as they
are at least 8 lines away :-)

> ===
> net.inet.tcp.rfc1323: 1 -> 0
> net.inet.tcp.rfc1644: 1 -> 0
> ===
> 
> which is far more informative for newbies like me.
> 
> Satoshi
> 


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