general sysconfig questions

From: Peyton Bland <bland_at_umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:41:01 -0500

Hi,

I have some general questions that have come up in the course of doing
system tuning and configuration (Tru64 5.0A running on an XP1000)...

1. The documentation says not to manually edit the /etc/sysconfigtab file.
I'll have to admit to having done this a couple of times rather than use
the accepted methods. Although I was very careful to maintain the
structure of the file -- according to the stanza(4) man page -- I'm curious
what I need to look out for or repair in order to avoid any obscure
problems.

2. I have noticed some discrepancies in the naming of attributes: "_" vs
"-" in some of the names. For example,

    # sysconfig -q proc max_proc_per_user
    proc:
    max_proc_per_user = 1024

    # sysconfig -q proc max-proc-per-user
    proc:
    max-proc-per-user = 1024

    # grep max.proc.per.user /etc/sysconfigtab
           max-proc-per-user=1024

I guess this is Tru64's way of saying that it doesn't matter. Also, I
recall seeing some attributes like this within the same entry...

    some-param=42
    some_param=42

but I can't remember where I (allegedly) saw this.

3. Finally, I assume that spaces on either side of the "=" in a stanza file
attribute are ignored...

Thanks for your consideration of these questions.

Peyton Bland

University of Michigan, Radiology
voice: 734-647-0849
FAX: 734-764-8541
e-mail: bland_at_umich.edu
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Received on Wed Dec 06 2000 - 20:42:39 NZDT

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