unknown option "MAXUSERS"

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Feb 18 18:51:37 GMT 2005


On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:28:07AM +0200, Dmitry M. wrote:
> 
> I tried recompile FreeBSD 5.3 kernel with IPFW support and added only two 
> lines:
> options  IPFIREWALL              # Enables the kernel firewall code.
> options  IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE  # Sends logged packets to the system logger.
> 
> I've used both methods from your documentation :
> 1. metod
> ---------------------------------
> -bash-2.05b# pwd
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> -bash-2.05b# ls -la
> total 72
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Feb 18 04:05 .
> drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel    512 Feb 18 02:36 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9798 Oct 24 21:02 GENERIC
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1982 Apr  2  2004 GENERIC.hints
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9798 Feb 18 04:05 GENERIC2
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     22 Feb 18 02:40 MYKERNEL 
> -> /root/kernels/MYKERNEL
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    120 Feb 27  2003 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  33470 Oct 24 21:02 NOTES
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    469 Jul 13  2004 OLDCARD
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1763 Oct 12 02:59 PAE
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    218 Oct 23 23:04 SMP
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   3991 Jul 26  2002 gethints.awk
> -bash-2.05b# config MYKERNEL
> MYKERNEL: unknown option "MAXUSERS"

Right, if you compare to the GENERIC kernel or NOTES you'll see that
there is in fact no such option listed, it's capitalized differently.

Kris
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