On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 19:24, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > > > On Thursday, July 14 at 18:59 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said: > >> One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2: >> >> What's the purpose of setting rc_sys? >> >> (In my case, to "xenU")l >> >> Rgds, > > > Just briefly looking at the sources... > > * It affects when some filesystems are mounted (e.g. xenfs). > * It determines if dmesg is written to /var/log/messages on boot. > * For openvz it writes a "halt record" on shutdown/reboot. > * For FreeBSD it does something with sysctl > * Probably some other stuff >
Ah, so it's truly useful then ;-) Thanks for the answer! Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
