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Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>>On 03-Jul-2003 Nate Lawson wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>>
>>>>I personally think that all tunable should be read-only (or rw if
>>>>possible) sysctls...
>>>
>>>I'm still not sure why we have both mechanisms.  Perhaps a useful approach
>>>would be to sweep the tree for tunables and change them to sysctls with
>>>appropriate permissions (read-only if in doubt).  Then remove the tunable
>>>mechanism.  Care to put together a patch?
>>
>>Cause you can't set sysctl's from the loader, only tunables?  Are you
>>going to duplicate the entire kernel environment from 'kenv' in
>>sysctl?
> 
> 
> Ah, I thought the two had been merged such that you could do that.

You can set sysctls from loder.conf. I just checked it to be shure.

regards,
flo