From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 23:15:25 2004 Return-Path: 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 85EB616A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A8643D54 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i3D6FLuJ089171; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:15:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:15:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Andy Miller Message-ID: <20040413061520.GF19655@dan.emsphone.com> References: <407B8108.20601@smxy.org> <20040413060855.GB36817@charade.trit.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040413060855.GB36817@charade.trit.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: "Shaun T. Erickson" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /proc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 06:15:25 -0000 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