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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:57:59 -0500
From:      "Doug Poland" <dpoland@execpc.com>
To:        "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Kernel config error message
Message-ID:  <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAEEECDOAA.dpoland@execpc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000605192515.A1244@student.csd.uu.se>

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> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:53:15AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm attempting to create a custom kernel with SYSVR4 
> > shared memory options.  The following options were 
> > taken from a 3.1R kernel that I used for over a year.  
> > I just upgraded to 4.0R and now when I attempt to run 
> > the config with these options, I get the following message...
> > 
> > canaan# /usr/sbin/config -g CANAAN
> > config: line 41: The `=' in options should not be quoted
> > 
> > The following is my SYSV memory options (line numbers 
> > added for this email and are not in the kernel file)
> > 
> > 37   # System V Shared memory options
> > 38   options     SYSVSHM      #SYSV-style shared memory
> > 39   options     SYSVMSG      #SYSV-style message queues
> > 40   options     SYSVSEM      #SYSV-style semaphores
> > 41   options     "SHMMAX=(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)"
> > 42   options     SHMMAXPGS=5000
> > 
> > Any ideas why I'm getting the error message?  Is it even 
> > significant?  

Eric said:
> 
> Remove the quotes (") from line 41 (as the error message suggests) and
> things should work better. The syntax of the config files has changed 
> slightly between 3.x and 4.x. 
> For one thing many things that had to be within quotes in 3.x are no
> longer required to be so.
> 

That did the trick Eric, thank you.
For the archives, Sybase 11.9.2 wants 32MB of shared memory, whereas
11.0.3.3 was happy with 16MB.

--
Doug


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