Ancient UNIX way to disable anything: ``doas chmod -x
/usr/libexec/reorder_kernel`` ;)

Although ``reorder_kernel`` is very simple ksh script, I agree it should be
documented.



On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Z Ero <[email protected]> wrote:

> Coincidently I just logged in to write the misc  list about relinking
> on boot. Is it possible to disable it? What about just relinking on
> the first boot after install? So then every kernel image is different
> but not re-randomized each boot! There are some low memory / slow CPU
> embedded systems like Alix / Soekris where the benefit, in my opinion,
> of re-linking every single boot is not worth the cost. That said
> granted these systems should not be rebooted frequently anyway once in
> production during normal use. I had a soekris recently that performed
> well for the task I needed it for but that I chose to install OpenBSD
> version 5.8 on...because I did not want to put up with the
> relinking...I would have rather used 6.2...would it be possible to
> give users a "switch" to turn off relinking if they want without
> recompiling the kernel...please forgive my ignorance (or flame
> away...) if this already exists.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:16 AM, Darren Tucker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 19 April 2018 at 16:52, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> This is a fresh upgrade of current/i386 on an ALIX 2D3.
> >> Upon start, kernel relinking fails, with relink.log saying:
> >
> > Do you have any swap configured?  Relinking takes a reasonable amount
> > of ram and the ALIX doesn't have a lot.
> >
> > --
> > Darren Tucker (dtucker at dtucker.net)
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> > usually comes from bad judgement.
> >
>
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