From owner-cvs-all Wed May 30 16:38:42 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B798C37B422; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 155FXp-0007On-00; Thu, 31 May 2001 01:38:29 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id BAA21918; Thu, 31 May 2001 01:38:27 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 21790; Thu May 31 01:37:24 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 155FWm-0006mn-00; Thu, 31 May 2001 01:37:24 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jesper Skriver , Dima Dorfman , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documenting sysctls (was: cvs commit: src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 May 2001 09:05:17 +0930." <20010531090517.Y54034@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 01:37:24 +0200 Message-ID: <26088.991265844@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 31 May 2001 09:05:17 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > I think the obvious thing to do is both. Yes, it's a little more > work, but how am I going to find which sysctls are available? If > they're scattered around the man pages, the only way is to do a > 'sysctl -a'. Then you have a maze of twisty little sysctls, all > different. How do you find what they do? Looking at Brooks Davis' idea, I think I agree. What'd you think of his suggestion? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message