From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 10:52:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA21141 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 10:52:25 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA21135 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 10:52:21 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20297; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:52:18 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA16618 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:52:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA15078 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:27:22 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506021727.TAA15078@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Does config spellcheck? (was Re: NMBCLUSTERS=2048) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:27:22 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Jun 2, 95 03:33:28 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 734 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Tao wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Jim Bryant wrote: > > > > Many many thanks for your suggestion to add 'options NMBCLUSTERS=2048' to > > the config for our news server... > > Hmmmm... does 'config' do any sort of sanity checking on the > options? How do you suppose it should? There's no such thing like an official list of allowable options, everybody is free to invent new options, and it's also possible to override several parameters from config level (e.g. a bunch of VM params, since the appropriate header files do only #define them bracketed within an #ifdef). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)