Re: Beep or visual signal after booting OpenBSD/sparc64

Ron Wickersham <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:19:28 -0700 (PDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbsd.sparc
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Hans Ivers wrote:

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> b) machdep.led_blink=1
>
> no way to make it works. I've enabled this option in /etc/sysctl.conf
> or within the root shell (sysctl -w machdep.led_blink=1) without any
> visible result.

after changing option in /etc/sysctl.conf is not effective until next
boot...

check man sysctl, on OpenBSD there is no -w option, unlike Solaris or
Linux, etc.    use sysctl machdep.led_blink=1 and it may work (does
on other Ultra-SPARC boxen.

-ron