On Tue, 15 May 2007 01:16:32 +0200 (CEST)
Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:

> 
> Right now we force people that can't use ACPI to "boot -c" and
> "disable acpi". This works, but it's not persistent. What would be
> nice is to have a "save" command either in userconf, or a feature to
> have userconf available from userland: OpenBSD has "config -e" that
> does just that - run userconf code and allows saving a modified
> kernel without rebuilding.
> 
If memory serves, BSDI read some file in /etc to handle such functions
at boot time.  Very convenient!


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb