From owner-freebsd-hackers  Fri Feb 19  6:10:24 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775191165B
	for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 06:10:11 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com)
Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com)
	by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1)
	id 10DqcM-00005U-00; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:09:22 +0200
From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>
To: dyson@iquest.net
Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon),
	peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Documenting sysctl knobs 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:40:02 EST."
             <199902190340.WAA00789@y.dyson.net> 
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:09:22 +0200
Message-ID: <339.919433362@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG



On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:40:02 EST, "John S. Dyson" wrote:

> There is a comment field in the sysctl macro.  It might not be sufficient,
> but then maybe a format could be defined for cross reference.

Hmmm...

From sysctl(8):

     The following options are available:

     -a      List all the currently available string or integer values.
[...]
     -d      Display the description rather than the value of the requested
             variable(s).

And yet when I do ``syctl -ad'':

sysctl: sysctl name -1 1024 2: No such file or directory

What am I missing?

Ciao,
Sheldon.

FreeBSD axl.noc.iafrica.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Feb 19 01:31:01 SAST 1999     sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/AXL  i386


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message