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From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>
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Subject: Re: BSD equiv of /proc?
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Jim Stapleton wrote:
> 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?
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IIRC try :
   mount -t linprocfs none /proc

and then check /proc out.

Also look at
   man mount_linprocfs

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Regards,
Eric