From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 13:11:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCDA37B718 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:10:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02637; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:10:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:10:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Nick Barnes Cc: Richard Brooksby , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ravenbrook System Administrators Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.4 kernel configuration not automatically saved In-Reply-To: <11779.954791244@raven.ravenbrook.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Nick Barnes wrote: > But seriously, it seems that adding "kget /boot/kernel.conf" somewhere > near the end of /etc/rc would revert us to the former behaviour of > FreeBSD (namely, that changes in UserConfig would get saved if the > boot completed successfully). Sure, we can add this to rc.local, but > why isn't it in rc? > > The current behaviour is not (a) well-documented, (b) intuitive, or > (c) in accordance with the user interface (UserConfig says "save and > exit"). I can understand a rationale for it, but I still don't like > it much. I have absolutely no opinon regarding this issue because I always just compile a custom kernel. If you would like to effect change, please either create a patch that does what you want, or at very least document carefully and in detail what you consider the "bug" to be, and submit a PR. Just talking about how things should be rarely accomplishes anything around here. (Where "rarely" is so close to "never" that it actually equals it for all useful definitions of the word. :) Either way, please remove my e-mail address from the cc: line. Thanks, Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message