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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Yance Kowara <yance_kowara@yahoo.com>
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On 2005-10-28 03:18, Yance Kowara <yance_kowara@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The handbook suggested that "Over five hundred system
> variables can be read and set using sysctl(8)" ...
>
> Any clue as to where I can see those "over five
> hundred system variables"? ... just being curious ...

To see a list of all the sysctl variables:

    sysctl -a | more

Not all of these are read-write though, so it may not be possible to set
all of them.