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 <bri...@mu.org> wrote: > 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 <free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> 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 rc processing time on wimpy platforms, so these wild >> ideas pop into my head. >> >> -- Ian >> >> On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 07:52 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> Wouldn't this obfuscate any errors in files? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore <free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org> >>> 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: 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) >>>>>> MFC after: 3 months >>>>>> >>>>>> Modified: >>>>>> head/etc/rc.d/sysctl >>>>>> head/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 >>>>>> head/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c >>>>>> >>>>>> Modified: head/etc/rc.d/sysctl >>>>>> ============================================================================== >>>>>> --- head/etc/rc.d/sysctl Thu Dec 13 23:19:13 2012 (r244197) >>>>>> +++ head/etc/rc.d/sysctl Thu Dec 13 23:32:47 2012 (r244198) >>>>>> @@ -8,51 +8,27 @@ >>>>>> . /etc/rc.subr >>>>>> >>>>>> name="sysctl" >>>>>> +command="/sbin/sysctl" >>>>>> stop_cmd=":" >>>>>> start_cmd="sysctl_start" >>>>>> reload_cmd="sysctl_start" >>>>>> lastload_cmd="sysctl_start last" >>>>>> extra_commands="reload lastload" >>>>>> >>>>>> -# >>>>>> -# Read in a file containing sysctl settings and set things accordingly. >>>>>> -# >>>>>> -parse_file() >>>>>> -{ >>>>>> - if [ -f $1 ]; then >>>>>> - while read var comments >>>>>> - do >>>>>> - case ${var} in >>>>>> - \#*|'') >>>>>> - ;; >>>>>> - *) >>>>>> - mib=${var%=*} >>>>>> - val=${var#*=} >>>>>> - >>>>>> - if current_value=`${SYSCTL} -n ${mib} 2>/dev/null`; then >>>>>> - case ${current_value} in >>>>>> - ${val}) >>>>>> - ;; >>>>>> - *) >>>>>> - if ! sysctl "${var}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then >>>>>> - warn "unable to set ${var}" >>>>>> - fi >>>>>> - ;; >>>>>> - esac >>>>>> - elif [ "$2" = "last" ]; then >>>>>> - warn "sysctl ${mib} does not exist." >>>>>> - fi >>>>>> - ;; >>>>>> - esac >>>>>> - done < $1 >>>>>> - fi >>>>>> -} >>>>>> - >>>>>> sysctl_start() >>>>>> { >>>>>> - >>>>>> - parse_file /etc/sysctl.conf $1 >>>>>> - parse_file /etc/sysctl.conf.local $1 >>>>>> + case $1 in >>>>>> + last) >>>>>> + command_args="-i -f" >>>>>> + ;; >>>>>> + *) >>>>>> + command_args="-f" >>>>>> + ;; >>>>>> + esac >>>>>> + >>>>>> + for _f in /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysctl.conf.local; do >>>>>> + [ -r ${_f} ] && ${command} ${command_args} ${_f} > /dev/null >>>>>> + done >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>> load_rc_config $name >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'd really like to see something like the patch bellow in the tree. I >>>>> found it very useful with cfengine configuration (as like as cron.d). >>>>> >>>>> What do think? >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/etc/rc.d/sysctl b/etc/rc.d/sysctl >>>>> index 36f1414..014e4c5 100755 >>>>> --- a/etc/rc.d/sysctl >>>>> +++ b/etc/rc.d/sysctl >>>>> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ sysctl_start() >>>>> ;; >>>>> esac >>>>> >>>>> - for _f in /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysctl.conf.local; do >>>>> + for _f in `ls /etc/sysctl.d/* 2> /dev/null` /etc/sysctl.conf >>>>> /etc/sysctl.conf.local; do >>>>> [ -r ${_f} ] && ${command} ${command_args} ${_f} > /dev/null >>>>> done >>>>> } >>>> >>>> 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/stdin available as early as sysctl.conf runs? If not, the >>>> attached patch isn't going to work. >>>> >>>> -- Ian >>>> >>>> diff -r cc5bd6d80aa1 sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c --- sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c Sun >>>> Aug 19 11:01:08 2012 -0600 +++ sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c Wed Dec 19 08:31:14 >>>> 2012 -0700 @@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) eflag = 1; >>>> break; case 'f': - conffile = optarg; + if (strcmp(optarg, "-") == 0) >>>> + conffile = "/dev/stdin"; + else + conffile = optarg; break; case >>>> 'h': hflag = 1; >>> _______________________________________________ >>> svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
