Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 06:59:17PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:21:40PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:58:54PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:02:09PM -0800, Xin Li wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 06:59:17PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:21:40PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:58:54PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:02:09PM -0800, Xin Li wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:21:40PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:58:54PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:02:09PM -0800, Xin Li wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > > > On 12/19/12 13:12, Garrett Cooper wrote

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:58:54PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:02:09PM -0800, Xin Li wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 12/19/12 13:12, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Garrett Cooper > > > wrote: > >

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:02:09PM -0800, Xin Li wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 12/19/12 13:12, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Garrett Cooper > > wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> find -exec / echo | xargs ? Seems like there's a better wa

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Xin Li wrote: > > Not a direct reply, but just noting that it can be *very* useful > > to have, e.g., a README or foo.old or foo.disabled file in the same > > directory where the "live" configuration files live. Always > > interpreting the full '*' glob is not al

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/19/12 14:28, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > [cc trimmed] > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Xin Li > wrote: > > Irrelevant. Consider this (extreme) situation: someone > distributes several sets of sysctl values tuned

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Xin Li wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 12/19/12 13:08, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Chris Rees >> wrote: >>> >>> On 19 Dec 2012 19:37, "Garrett Cooper" >>> wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

[cc trimmed] On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Xin Li wrote: > Irrelevant. Consider this (extreme) situation: someone distributes > several sets of sysctl values tuned for certain situations, like > tcp.conf, supermicro.conf, ... and wants to put them together in a > directory, it's useful to so

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/19/12 13:08, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Chris Rees > wrote: >> >> On 19 Dec 2012 19:37, "Garrett Cooper" >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore >>> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> Instea

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/19/12 13:12, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Garrett Cooper > wrote: > > ... > >> find -exec / echo | xargs ? Seems like there's a better way to >> solve this. > > Of course we also might be overengineering the prob

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/19/12 13:10, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Jilles Tjoelker > wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:16:26AM -0800, Xin Li wrote: >>> It may be worthy to make sysctl(8) to accept mutiple -f's, but >>> it seems to be har

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: ... > find -exec / echo | xargs ? Seems like there's a better way to solve this. Of course we also might be overengineering the problem (my suggestion definitely was overengineered). Why not pass in the appropriate arguments via sys

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:16:26AM -0800, Xin Li wrote: >> It may be worthy to make sysctl(8) to accept mutiple -f's, but it >> seems to be hard to write shell scripts that utilizes this feature in >> a elegant manner. > > This is possible

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > > On 19 Dec 2012 19:37, "Garrett Cooper" wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore >> wrote: >> >> ... >> >> > Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something >> > conceptually similar to >> > >> >cat /etc/s

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:16:26AM -0800, Xin Li wrote: > It may be worthy to make sysctl(8) to accept mutiple -f's, but it > seems to be hard to write shell scripts that utilizes this feature in > a elegant manner. This is possible but indeed a bit ugly. Hard-coding the list of files is not too

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On 19 Dec 2012 19:37, "Garrett Cooper" wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore > wrote: > > ... > > > Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something > > conceptually similar to > > > >cat /etc/sysctl.d/* /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -f - > > > > Along with this (u

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 11:10 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore > wrote: > > ... > > > Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something > > conceptually similar to > > > >cat /etc/sysctl.d/* /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -f - > > > > Along wi

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: ... > Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something > conceptually similar to > >cat /etc/sysctl.d/* /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -f - > > Along with this (untested) patch to make sysctl understand "-f -". > > Hmmm, is /dev/st

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/19/12 09:37, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I think that it's a good idea. Maybe there's some way to give > sysctl.conf the equivalent of #file preprocessor directives? /me seeing sysctl(8) expanding to grow e-mail reading capability in the future?

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

I didn't catch your idea of multiple files to parse. That sounds like a better idea than mine (# based file directives) for sure. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I think that it's a good idea. Maybe there's some way to give sysctl.conf the > equival

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

I think that it's a good idea. Maybe there's some way to give sysctl.conf the equivalent of #file preprocessor directives? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > Hrm. Yeah, it would. Or at least, it might. If the error message > cites the text of the line it ch

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

Hrm. Yeah, it would. Or at least, it might. If the error message cites the text of the line it chokes on, maybe that's not a problem. Running sysctl once passing it a list of files would fix that, but would probably be more complexity than it's worth. I just always try to find ways to reduce r

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

Wouldn't this obfuscate any errors in files? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 19:02 +0400, Andrey Zonov wrote: >> On 12/14/12 3:32 AM, Xin LI wrote: >>> Author: delphij >>> Date: Thu Dec 13 23:32:47 2012 >>> New Revision: 244198 >>> URL:

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 19:02 +0400, Andrey Zonov wrote: > On 12/14/12 3:32 AM, Xin LI wrote: > > Author: delphij > > Date: Thu Dec 13 23:32:47 2012 > > New Revision: 244198 > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244198 > > > > Log: > > Teach sysctl(8) about parsing a file (while I'm th

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On 12/14/12 3:32 AM, Xin LI wrote: > Author: delphij > Date: Thu Dec 13 23:32:47 2012 > New Revision: 244198 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244198 > > Log: > Teach sysctl(8) about parsing a file (while I'm there also give it > capability of parsing both = and : formats). >

Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:32:48PM +, Xin LI wrote: > Author: delphij > Date: Thu Dec 13 23:32:47 2012 > New Revision: 244198 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244198 > Log: > Teach sysctl(8) about parsing a file (while I'm there also give it > capability of parsing both = an

svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl

Author: delphij Date: Thu Dec 13 23:32:47 2012 New Revision: 244198 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244198 Log: Teach sysctl(8) about parsing a file (while I'm there also give it capability of parsing both = and : formats). Submitted by: hrs (initial version, bugs are mine)