From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 6 13:17:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0158B37B403 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 98455 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 20:25:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 20:25:58 -0000 Message-ID: <3B1E8F67.6EE798B7@iowna.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:15:35 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysctl Variables References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010606155808.00a861f8@63.94.12.188> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Stewart wrote: > > Hello, > I was browsing the FreeBSD Website and I could not find a good reference > on which sysctl variables do what. Does such a reference exist? Is there a > place where I could find more info on what certain variables do? I'm not > interested in any area in particular, but I'm the type of person who likes > to look around and see what controls what, etc. Best reference I've seen so far is the source code. The sysctl man page tells you what headers to look in for what information, and these headers generally have a short description of what each sysctl variable does. Even if you're not familiar with C code, it's pretty easy to read (once you find the definition for a sysctl variable ) I generally grep the source for the sysctl I'm looking for, and then the file that defines it will contain a description. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message