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Subject: Re: Viewing loader tunables in console
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On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:54 AM Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
>
> Ekalavya <ekalavya.bsd@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I know that sysctl tunables are viewable using the sysctl command, but
> > I am having trouble viewing loader tunables like
> > kern.vt.fb.default_mode. I need to know this before I start setting
> > values for them in my loader.conf file. How do I do this?
>
> I think that the kenv(1) command will list them.  I am not an expert, so
> anybody please correct me if this is wrong.

They will be in the kenv, but typically only if you've actually set
them in loader.conf. We don't (generally, there's probably
counter-examples) export those using default values to the kenv.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans