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Re: FreeBSD 10 userland



On 04/02/2014 21:26, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hi Robert!
> 
> During update I'm seeing the following:
> 
>> Setting up freebsd-utils (10.0-2) ...
>>
>> Configuration file '/etc/sysctl.conf'
>>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>>       Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
>>  The default action is to keep your current version.
>> *** sysctl.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? d
>>
>> Configuration file '/etc/sysctl.conf'
>>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>>       Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
>>  The default action is to keep your current version.
>> *** sysctl.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? 

Did you resolve the conflict? What is in /etc/sysctl.conf afterwards?

>> Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/freebsd-utils ...
>> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
>> [ ok ] Loading devfs rules...done.
>> [ ok ] Setting up /dev links...done.
>> [ ok ] Mounting kernel filesystems...done.
>> [....] Setting kernel variables ...sysctl: unknown oid '/etc/sysctl.conf': No such file or directory
>> failed.

Strange. Is /bin/sysctl the wrapper script? (which supports -p)

What happens if you run:

sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

?

-- 
Robert Millan


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