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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:15:20 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Andy Miller <andy@trit.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /proc
Message-ID:  <20040413061520.GF19655@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040413060855.GB36817@charade.trit.org>
References:  <407B8108.20601@smxy.org> <20040413060855.GB36817@charade.trit.org>

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In the last episode (Apr 13), Andy Miller said:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 01:56:24AM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> > One of the things I really miss from my Linux system, is the /proc
> > directory structure, where I could easily find out so much about my
> > system and, in some cases, modify it.
> > 
> > Is there are way I can get such a thing under FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4?
> >
> 
> Read the man for procfs.  It should help you figure out how to do it.

Since you mentioned modifying things, you might want to look at the
sysctl command instead.  Linux's procfs is overloaded to do more than a
/proc should.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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