Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:48:42 -0000 From: "Dominic Bishop" <dom@bishnet.net> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: kern.shutdown_timeout sysctl not working Message-ID: <20040225124546.AFBF043D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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I tried setting the value of the kern.shutdown_timeout sysctl and it failed
with:
sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.shutdown_timeout'
I am trying to increase the maximum time allowed for rc.shutdown to run due
to some custom scripting I want to wait for at the end.
>From the source code of init (ie init.c) it clearly reads the value of this
sysctl to override the default of 2 minutes:
if (sysctlbyname("kern.shutdown_timeout",
&shutdowntimeout,
&len, NULL, 0) == -1 || shutdowntimeout < 2)
shutdowntimeout = DEATH_SCRIPT;
But it appears that in reality this sysctl value doesn't exist.
Can I assume this is a bug and one or the other bit is wrong?
And is there anyway to fix this?
If it comes to it I can just override the default 2 minutes by altering the
#define in init.c but I would prefer to not hack the source and have to
re-edit after every src cvsup, especially since the sysctl would provide a
much neater way of accomplishing it.
I posted this question to questions a few days back but didn't get any
response there so figured I might get an answer here.
uname -a output is as follows:
FreeBSD magellan.dom.bishnet.net 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 #1: Sun Feb 22
02:52:35 GMT 2004
dom@dom.bishnet.net:/u2/usr/obj/u2/usr/src/sys/MAGELLAN i386
A quick look at cvs comments suggests that nothing has been changed that
affects this between 5.2.1-RC2 and -CURRENT
Regards,
Dominic Bishop
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