On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Ashley Moore wrote: > hi, > > during the boot process, just after the option to > press 'I' to enter interactive mode (rc.sysinit - ?, > correct me if i'm wrong), a message says 'Configuring > Kernel Parameters....' > > can someone tell me what is happening in the > background, during the time this message (command ?) > is waiting to finish?
It's running: sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf This does things like setup ip forwarding, increase inode limits, etc.. Look in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for more information.
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