From 7d302ba296c897e3770de1ee968ab9eb4c963491 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 06:11:06 +0000
Subject: switch from echoing values into /proc/sys to using sysctl

---
 rc.d/rc.sysinit | 19 ++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

(limited to 'rc.d/rc.sysinit')

diff --git a/rc.d/rc.sysinit b/rc.d/rc.sysinit
index 1e2b3220..c4852c2d 100755
--- a/rc.d/rc.sysinit
+++ b/rc.d/rc.sysinit
@@ -44,23 +44,15 @@ fi
 
 action "Mounting proc filesystem" mount -n -t proc /proc /proc
 
-# Turn off sysrq
-if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq -a "$MAGIC_SYSRQ" = "no" ]; then
-	echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
-	action "Turning off Magic SysRq key" /bin/true
-fi
-# Turn off Stop-A
-if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/stop-a -a "$STOP_A" = "no" ]; then
-	echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/stop-a
-	action "Turning off Stop-A/Break-A" /bin/true
-fi
+# Configure kernel parameters
+
+action "Configuring kernel parameters" sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf
 
 # Set the system clock.
 ARC=0
 SRM=0
 UTC=0
 
-
 if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/clock ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/clock
 
@@ -293,9 +285,10 @@ fi
 
 if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe ]; then
    if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then
-       echo "/sbin/modprobe" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
+       sysctl -w kernel.modprobe="/sbin/modprobe" >/dev/null 2>&1
    else
-       echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
+       # We used to set this to NULL, but that causes 'failed to exec' messages"
+       sysctl -w kernel.modprobe="/bin/true" >/dev/null 2>&1
    fi
 fi
 
-- 
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