From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 23 13:58:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16EE37B422; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82FD0987; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id NAA03648; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39CD1971.874C72A6@cup.hp.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:58:25 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Kris Kennaway , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, sjr@home.net Subject: Re: sysctl on boot. References: <200009182209.QAA33920@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message Kris Kennaway writes: > : On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > : > : > A short term fix is to just rerun /etc/rc.sysctl at the end of the > : > boot sequence, just before the secrelevel change. Stephen's PR > : > suggests this with a patch. I think it is good, but wanted to get > : > some feedback from others before doing this. > : > : rc.sysctl_early and rc.sysctl_late? > > I worry about a gratuitous change to the name. However, I could > easily see rc.sysctl have an early file and a late one settable by > rc.conf rc.sysctl could be made to work in stages. It could be given the stage as an argument, or could determine the stage by itself. Working in stages abstracts better than the creation of files and can be made as complex as necessary. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message