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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-02-27 20:47:11 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-02-27 20:47:11 +0000
commit1ee20283f3d708d083c1d99623955640c592f851 (patch)
treef13fd18d9bee7ca3600982a631dcb1aa5eb9a35b /sbin/sysctl
parentce2b5d822a44ccbb6ec91e50ad46e3bb114950af (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.819
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