> You shouldn't be modifying /etc/rc directly anyway. Create a startup script > in /Library/StartupItems, or /etc/mach_init.d. I believe the latter is new > with 10.3 and is now the preferred method. Granted, modifying /etc/rc is a > lot easier, but you pay for it later when an update wipes out your changes > and you beat your head against the wall trying to find the problem.
Startup items can no longer change the sysv kernel settings. I forget whether that is a 10.2 change, or a 10.3 change, but setting them in a startup item has no effect and hasn't for a pretty long time. I was not aware of /etc/mach_init.d, a quick glance at the docs make it obvious that it runs earlier than SystemStarter, looking at /etc/rc shows that it runs not that much later than the normal settings of the sysv parameters. Are you sure changing sysv kernel parameters at that point will work? -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 665-7007 voice ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
