RCTL in Generic ?

Ernie Luzar luzar722 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 09:19:09 UTC 2016


Solène Rapenne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In this handbook 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/security-resourcelimits.html page I 
> read
> 
>> By default, kernel support for rctl is not built-in, meaning that the 
>> kernel will
>> first need to be recompiled using the instructions [..]. Add these 
>> lines to either
>> GENERIC or a custom kernel configuration file, then rebuild the kernel:
>> options         RACCT
>> options         RCTL
> 
> I downloaded the sources of 10.2-RELEASE and I found that thoses options 
> are already in the GENERIC config file.
> 
> The handbook should be updated because it seems built-in now. To 
> activate it kern.racct.enable=1 in /boot/loader.conf is neeeded.
> 
> Kind regards


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