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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-02-27 20:47:11 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-02-27 20:47:11 +0000 |
commit | 1ee20283f3d708d083c1d99623955640c592f851 (patch) | |
tree | f13fd18d9bee7ca3600982a631dcb1aa5eb9a35b /sbin/sysctl | |
parent | ce2b5d822a44ccbb6ec91e50ad46e3bb114950af (diff) |
Remove the paragraph about "sysctl debug" as suggested by kettenis@.
It misled users to think they could use it, and it didn't really
provide any useful information.
Instead, note that some sysctl variables depend on options(4).
OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/sysctl')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 | 19 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 index b2f6529717c..6eed9a4232d 100644 --- a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 +++ b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.153 2010/01/14 22:25:05 guenther Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.154 2010/02/27 20:47:10 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.4 1995/09/30 07:12:49 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)sysctl.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 5/9/95 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 14 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 27 2010 $ .Dt SYSCTL 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ The changeable column indicates whether a process with appropriate privilege can change the value. .Pp Note: -not all of the variables are relevant to all architectures. +not all of the variables are relevant to all architectures, +and a few require a kernel compiled with non-standard +.Xr options 4 . .Bl -column net.inet.ip.ipsec-expire-acquirexxxx integerxxx .It Sy Name Type Changeable .It kern.ostype string no @@ -409,15 +411,7 @@ not all of the variables are relevant to all architectures. .Pp The .Nm -program can get or set debugging variables -that have been identified for its display. -This information can be obtained by using the command: -.Pp -.Dl $ sysctl debug -.Pp -In addition, -.Nm -can extract information about the filesystems that have been compiled +program can extract information about the filesystems that have been compiled into the running system. This information can be obtained by using the command: .Pp @@ -529,6 +523,7 @@ the maximum number of shared memory segments: .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sysctl 3 , +.Xr options 4 , .Xr sysctl.conf 5 .Sh HISTORY .Nm |