From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 14:12:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72AC016A418 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 14:12:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCF843D5D for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 14:12:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k45ECQ7E009519; Fri, 5 May 2006 09:12:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:12:26 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jim Stapleton Message-ID: <20060505141226.GG65700@dan.emsphone.com> References: <80f4f2b20605050707pe8d67case501f708c8e75427@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20605050707pe8d67case501f708c8e75427@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD equiv of /proc? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 14:12:30 -0000 In the last episode (May 05), Jim Stapleton said: > I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's empty. I'm used to > linux, where you can do stuff like 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to get > information about the system. What is the BSD equivalent of this, or > is it /proc, and I'm just missing something? FreeBSD uses /proc for process-related stuff only. System stats are retrieved using the sysctl command. Try running "sysctl -a" and see if anything's useful. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com