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Re: Stale files in /usr/X11/bin ?


From: Joerg Anslik <joerg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:55:08 +0100

>You have to set vfs.varsym_enable=1 though. Someone wants to add
>that to the manpage?

Yes.

--j




--- bin/varsym/varsym.1    12 Dec 2003 19:50:07 -0000      1.3
+++ bin/varsym/varsym.1    26 Mar 2005 16:50:30 -0000
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $DragonFly: src/bin/varsym/varsym.1,v 1.3 2003/12/12 19:50:07
dillon Exp $
 .\"
-.Dd Nov 5, 2003
+.Dd Mar 26, 2005
 .Dt VARSYM 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -66,6 +66,14 @@
 is run as its own process, using this option to set a variable will
not
 affect your shell's namespace.
 .El
+.Sh NOTE
+You have to set
+.Pa varsym_enable="YES"
+in your
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf
+file for the
+.Nm
+mechanism to work. (sysctl -w vfs.varsym_enable=1 as a last resort
also does the trick.)
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 The
 .Nm
@@ -80,3 +88,4 @@
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr ln 1 ,
+.Xr sysctl 8

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unzip; touch; strip; gasp; finger; gasp; mount;
fsck; more; yes; gasp; umount; make clean; sleep



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