Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:41:03 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Anton Berezin <tobez@freebsd.org>
Cc:        audit@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New option to sysctl(8)
Message-ID:  <20011030154102.B223@gohan.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011029223004.B50609@heechee.tobez.org>; from tobez@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:30:04PM %2B0100
References:  <20011029223004.B50609@heechee.tobez.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:30:04PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:

[snip]

> +.It Fl e
> +Separate the name and the value of the variable(s) with `='.
> +This is useful for producing output which can be fed back to the
> +.Nm
> +utility.
> +This option is ignored if either
> +.Fl N
> +or
> +.Fl n
> +is specified, or a variable is being set.

Might it just be easier to allow sysctl(8) to accept,

  # sysctl -w some.sysctl.var: value

As valid input? Any reason why it should not?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011030154102.B223>