Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:09:13 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20061128170913.GB5104@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20061123151459.qad64blllicgo4gs@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <200611221617.kAMGH1PD093122@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061123151459.qad64blllicgo4gs@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On 2006-11-23 15:14, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote: >Quoting Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> >(from Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:17:01 +0000 (UTC)): >>keramida 2006-11-22 16:17:01 UTC >> >> FreeBSD doc repository >> >> Modified files: >> en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml >> Log: >> Various fixes to the "config and tuning" section of the Handbook. >> >> * Reword the paragraph before a set of tunables for Linux, as >> it wasa bit confusing. > > The compat.linux.osrelease one needs to be removed. glibc behaves > differently based upon the value of it. It may refuse to do anything > if it doesn't understand the value. Changing the value of osrelease is > only advised in experimental situations (like in > http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel) and may result even in kernel > panics. Thanks! Should I just remove the reference to compat.linux.osrelease, or do we need to make other wider changes to the text around the area. It currently reads: % <sect2 id="configtuning-sysctlconf"> % <title><filename>sysctl.conf</filename></title> % % <indexterm><primary>sysctl.conf</primary></indexterm> % <indexterm><primary>sysctl</primary></indexterm> % % <para><filename>sysctl.conf</filename> looks much like % <filename>rc.conf</filename>. Values are set in a % <literal>variable=value</literal> % form. The specified values are set after the system goes into % multi-user mode. Not all variables are settable in this mode.</para> % % <para>To turn off logging of fatal signal exits and let Linux % programs know they are really running under &os;, the following % tunables can be set in <filename>sysctl.conf</filename>:</para> % % <programlisting>kern.logsigexit=0 # Do not log fatal signal exits (e.g. sig 11) % compat.linux.osname=&os; % compat.linux.osrelease=4.3-STABLE</programlisting> % </sect2> % </sect1>
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