From owner-cvs-usrsbin Mon Nov 20 13:44:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-cvs-usrsbin Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA11579 for cvs-usrsbin-outgoing; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:44:52 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA11561 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:44:38 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA05072; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:44:31 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id NAA00149; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:43:58 -0800 Message-Id: <199511202143.NAA00149@corbin.Root.COM> To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 95 20:00:35 +0100." <199511201900.UAA00319@gvr.win.tue.nl> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:43:57 -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> The sysctl crap in the Makefile is bogus and should be removed. My kernel >> is often not called "/kernel" and pretending that it was is wrong. The bootfile >> name should be read-only and the Makefile should not be messing with it. >> > >I still dont like the fact that installing a new kernel with make install >can make all kinds of programs useless. Perhaps a better way of >doing things is first check if /kernel is the kernel being used. If so, and >if it is moved to kernel.old, sysctl should be called according to me. And if I do 2 make installs before rebooting? -DG