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| author | Theo Buehler <tb@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2017-05-04 15:59:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Theo Buehler <tb@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2017-05-04 15:59:40 +0000 |
| commit | 0205ae46fbf09e7a391640d5124f603b367aaf11 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d12a6bb9e5e5280a2fda2d83e33c7ece7df42fe /usr.sbin/config/config.8 | |
| parent | 4e5a40803fcd3d9d6318881e6355e1074be7e8ed (diff) | |
Document that -u wants to read from /dev/mem, so it needs kern.allowkmem=1.
Problem reported by jdd () cs ! toronto ! edu on bugs.
ok brynet deraadt jmc
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/config/config.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/config/config.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/config/config.8 b/usr.sbin/config/config.8 index 179af831b98..ad3fc3aed18 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/config/config.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/config/config.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: config.8,v 1.63 2017/05/01 06:39:25 mpi Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: config.8,v 1.64 2017/05/04 15:59:39 tb Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: config.8,v 1.10 1996/08/31 20:58:16 mycroft Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)config.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 1 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 4 2017 $ .Dt CONFIG 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ If so, compare the running kernel with the kernel to be edited .Pq Ar infile . If they seem to be the same, apply all configuration changes performed at boot. +Using this option requires read access to +.Pa /dev/mem , +which may be restricted based upon the value of the +.Ar kern.allowkmem +.Xr sysctl 8 . .El .Sh KERNEL BUILDING The output of |