From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 16 03:56:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696D1106564A for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:56:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciphwn@gmail.com) Received: from brinza.cc.columbia.edu (brinza.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.29.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A2E8FC12 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciphwn@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.0.254] (dyn-shp-226-57.dyn.columbia.edu [160.39.226.57]) (user=cjh2148 mech=PLAIN bits=0) by brinza.cc.columbia.edu (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n2G3S9Qv011466 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:28:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49BDC6EA.6010600@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:26:34 -0400 From: "ciphwn@gmail.com" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-No-Spam-Score: Local X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 128.59.29.8 Cc: Subject: netstat -M and netstat -N 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: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:56:08 -0000 While looking at the netstat man pages, I saw an interesting option: > -M Extract values associated with the name list from the specified > core instead of the default /dev/kmem. > > -N Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the > default, which is the kernel image the system has booted from. what do these two options mean? Does it tell netstat to load its values from somewhere else? This seems to exist only in FreeBSD's version of netstat. Thanks in advance. Cipta