Re: Beep or visual signal after booting OpenBSD/sparc64

On Thursday 17 September 2009 21:19:28 Ron Wickersham wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Hans Ivers wrote:
>
> ---snip---
>
> > 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...

He made it pretty clear he tried it manually via sysctl(8).

> 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.

OpenBSD used to have the -w flag and still accepts the flag.

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