From owner-cvs-all Mon Mar 18 21:14:58 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mrout1.yahoo.com (mrout1.yahoo.com [216.145.54.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5493F37B402; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:14:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by mrout1.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/y.out) with ESMTP id g2J5EnA51866; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:14:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2J5Ei557405; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:14:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:14:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: dougb@zoot.corp.yahoo.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: "Crist J. Clark" , Makoto Matsushita , , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc In-Reply-To: <20020318194237.A18907@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: <20020318211222.D57401-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:59:49PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > > I still kind of like the idea of breaking /etc/sysctl.conf into > > > sections > > > > The problem with that approach is that it requires users to know > > at which stages in the process different mibs are available to twiddle. I > > think that's asking too much. > > Totally agreed. I guess the fix to that, though, is for someone to > create a config file that seperated the MIB entries into "sections". > Thus "/etc/rc.sysctl first" would know to DTRT w/o the user having to. I don't oppose more complex (or even more correct, if you wish) solutions, as I stated earlier. However, given that _documenting_ the mibs has sat in various people's trees for ages now, I hold no confidence that such a config file would ever be created, or kept up to date. Also, there is the issue of what mibs are available when is highly dependent on things like module loading, etc. I think that there may be too many variables for such an approach to be successful -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message