Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 19:03:10 +0930 From: Leigh Hart <hart@dotat.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl for string arguments ? Message-ID: <199810070933.TAA13299@at.dotat.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 08:00:12 %2B0100." <199810070700.IAA08022@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hi Luigi,
Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> > > other strings in sysctl args seem not to be R/W (or at least,
> > > not settable with the "sysctl" command... e.g. kern.hostname and the
> > > like).
> >
> > kern.corefile in kern_sig.c.
>
> ok, thanks (i was looking on -stable...)
>
> On this subject, it seems that sysctl on 2.2.6 at least does not accept
> strings containing spaces:
>
> sysctl -w kern.hostname=a,b,c
>
> works, whereas
>
> sysctl -w kern.hostname="a b c"
>
> fails. I am not sure who does the parsing of strings removing
> whitespace, nor if this works on -current
Wierd - on 2.2.5 and 3.0-971006-SNAP this ("a b c") works fine ...:
# sysctl -w kern.hostname="a b c"
kern.hostname: duster.adelaide.on.net -> a b c
# uname -a
FreeBSD a b c 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #0:
Sun Apr 26 13:33:54 CST 1998 root@duster:/usr/src/sys/compile/DUSTER i386
I don't have a 2.2.6 system to try it on however...
Cheers
Leigh
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