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| author | Mike Pechkin <mpech@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-02-11 18:43:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Pechkin <mpech@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-02-11 18:43:53 +0000 |
| commit | 08be39f5bb2c3749f037ee6a116aec7656b0460b (patch) | |
| tree | 94d8c274d8fb74b16780ae5b6e401c511d9f84d5 /sbin/sysctl | |
| parent | 11661b37fd11040c9eb7ea938591fd8c371e7c9c (diff) | |
Initial patch.
When you give command examples in a manual page prefix them with
$ command
or
# command
deraadt@ ok
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 index 3cc9fd46266..1cbb1892edb 100644 --- a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 +++ b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.76 2002/02/10 22:09:24 nate Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.77 2002/02/11 18:43:51 mpech Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.4 1995/09/30 07:12:49 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993 @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ suppress printing of the field name, only output the field value. Useful for setting shell variables. For example: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -set psize=`sysctl -n hw.pagesize` +# set psize=`sysctl -n hw.pagesize` .Ed .Pp If just a MIB style name is given, @@ -329,23 +329,23 @@ flag lists all the filesystems compiled into the running kernel. For example, to retrieve the maximum number of processes allowed in the system, one would use the follow request: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -sysctl kern.maxproc +$ sysctl kern.maxproc .Ed .Pp To set the maximum number of processes allowed in the system to 1000, one would use the follow request: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -sysctl -w kern.maxproc=1000 +# sysctl -w kern.maxproc=1000 .Ed .Pp Information about the system clock rate may be obtained with: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -sysctl kern.clockrate +$ sysctl kern.clockrate .Ed .Pp Information about the load average history may be obtained with .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -sysctl vm.loadavg +$ sysctl vm.loadavg .Ed .Pp To make the @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ To make the system call use traditional BSD semantics (don't clear setuid/setgid bits), one would do the following: .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -sysctl -w fs.posix.setuid=0 +# sysctl -w fs.posix.setuid=0 .Ed .Pp Set the list of reserved TCP ports that should not be allocated @@ -362,13 +362,13 @@ This can be used to keep daemons from stealing a specific port that another program needs to function. List elements may be separated by commas and/or whitespace. .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=749,750,751,760,761,871 +# sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=749,750,751,760,761,871 .Ed .Pp It is also possible to add or remove ports from the current list. .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=+748 -sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=-871 +# sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=+748 +# sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=-871 .Ed .Pp To adjust the number of kernel @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ To adjust the number of kernel threads used to service asynchronous I/O requests on an NFS client machine use .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -sysctl -w vfs.nfs.iothreads=4 +# sysctl -w vfs.nfs.iothreads=4 .Ed .Pp The number of 4 is the default, where the 20 is the maximum. |