From owner-cvs-all Wed May 30 16:48:53 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1061137B43C; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 587806ACBC; Thu, 31 May 2001 09:18:45 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:18:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Sheldon Hearn 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) Message-ID: <20010531091845.A54034@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010531090517.Y54034@wantadilla.lemis.com> <26088.991265844@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <26088.991265844@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:37:24AM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Thursday, 31 May 2001 at 1:37:24 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > 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? I think I should have finished reading the thread before replying. It's probably about the best choice. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message