cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-11-23 15:14, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
>Quoting Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org>
>(from Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:17:01 +0000 (UTC)):
>>keramida    2006-11-22 16:17:01 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD doc repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml
>>  Log:
>>  Various fixes to the "config and tuning" section of the Handbook.
>>
>>    * Reword the paragraph before a set of tunables for Linux, as
>>      it wasa bit confusing.
>
> The compat.linux.osrelease one needs to be removed. glibc behaves
> differently based upon the value of it. It may refuse to do anything
> if it doesn't understand the value. Changing the value of osrelease is
> only advised in experimental situations (like in
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel) and may result even in kernel
> panics.

Thanks!  Should I just remove the reference to compat.linux.osrelease,
or do we need to make other wider changes to the text around the area.

It currently reads:

%     <sect2 id="configtuning-sysctlconf">
%       <title><filename>sysctl.conf</filename></title>
%
%       <indexterm><primary>sysctl.conf</primary></indexterm>
%       <indexterm><primary>sysctl</primary></indexterm>
%
%       <para><filename>sysctl.conf</filename> looks much like
%         <filename>rc.conf</filename>.  Values are set in a
%         <literal>variable=value</literal>
%         form.  The specified values are set after the system goes into
%         multi-user mode.  Not all variables are settable in this mode.</para>
%
%       <para>To turn off logging of fatal signal exits and let Linux
%         programs know they are really running under &os;, the following
%         tunables can be set in <filename>sysctl.conf</filename>:</para>
%
%       <programlisting>kern.logsigexit=0       # Do not log fatal signal exits (e.g. sig 11)
% compat.linux.osname=&os;
% compat.linux.osrelease=4.3-STABLE</programlisting>
%     </sect2>
%   </sect1>