From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 11 18:35:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEB337B401 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.nxad.com (lan.ext.nxad.com [66.250.180.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4594643EB2 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@nxad.com) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (perrin.int.nxad.com [192.168.1.251]) by mailhost.nxad.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34833212EEB for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AEC2F21058; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:35:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:35:16 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: sysctl -a loops forever... Message-ID: <20021212023516.GC6097@perrin.int.nxad.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6CEB 1B06 BFD3 70F6 95BE 7E4D 8E85 2E0A 5F5B 3ECB X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anyone seen sysctl -a loop forever? I haven't been able to track down the MIB that it's gettinng hung up on, but it looks like there's a flaw in the algo that is walking through the MIBs. Given that this halts the machine while trying to collect entropy (sysctl -a is used to help feed /dev/random) at system start up, I think it's something worth addressing or pointing out. -sc [snip] net.inet.ipf.ippr_ftp_pasvonly: 0 net.inet.ipf.fr_minttl: 3 net.inet.ipf.fr_minttllog: 1 [hangs forever in a for() loop] ^C $ PS I'm still catching up on -current and -cvs if this has already come up. -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message