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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: kenv - output needed
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 05:12:47PM +1300, Atom Smasher wrote:
> i'm trying to figure out what might be reasonable output from kenv. on the 
> three machines that i have access to i'm already seeing wide variations of 
> formatting and usefulness.
> 
> i'd like to collect as much output as i can get (off-list should be fine) 
> from one of these two commands:
> 
> 1) preferred:
> 	kenv | egrep bios
> 
> 2) i can also use this:
> 	kenv | egrep 'product|maker'

kenv is essentially dumping all the variables set by the bootloader
prior to starting the kernel. If you want something more structured then
maybe the dmidecode utility would be useful.


cheers,
Andrew