Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:34:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for moving /usr/sbin/sysctl -> /sbin/sysctl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809071033280.19160-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <35F3BEBA.17D9375A@urc.ac.ru>
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It is in /sbin in 3.0 % which sysctl /sbin/sysctl % uname -a FreeBSD twentythree.jkb.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Sep 6 17:35:29 GMT 1998 jkb@twentythree.jkb.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/TWENTYTHREE i386 -- Yan I don't have the password + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: >Hi, FreeBSD guys. > >Wouldn't it be better to have the sysctl utility in /sbin instead of /usr/sbin? > >One example: > >I have a router which mounts its /usr from another host via NFS. >As it is a router, it calls sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 >from /etc/rc.network on startup. But at that time, /usr is not mounted yet :-( > >Now I have to copy /usr/sbin/sysctl to /sbin/. It has better to be done by >the distribution :-) > >BTW, grep sysctl /etc/rc.network: > sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 >/dev/null 2>&1 > sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0 >/dev/null 2>&1 > sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > sysctl -w net.inet.ip.sourceroute=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > sysctl -w net.inet.ip.accept_sourceroute=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > sysctl -w net.ipx.ipx.ipxforwarding=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.proxyall=1 2>&1 > sysctl -w vfs.nfs.nfs_privport=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > >I am sorry if I'm writing to wrong group. I just don't know mechanisms >for the right way of such proposals. > >-- > Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern > http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, > mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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