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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 09:18:45 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>, Dima Dorfman <dd@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Documenting sysctls (was: cvs commit: src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8)
Message-ID:  <20010531091845.A54034@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <26088.991265844@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:37:24AM %2B0200
References:  <20010531090517.Y54034@wantadilla.lemis.com> <26088.991265844@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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On Thursday, 31 May 2001 at  1:37:24 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 31 May 2001 09:05:17 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> I think the obvious thing to do is both.  Yes, it's a little more
>> work, but how am I going to find which sysctls are available?  If
>> they're scattered around the man pages, the only way is to do a
>> 'sysctl -a'.  Then you have a maze of twisty little sysctls, all
>> different.  How do you find what they do?
>
> Looking at Brooks Davis' idea, I think I agree.  What'd you think of his
> suggestion?

I think I should have finished reading the thread before replying.
It's probably about the best choice.

Greg
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