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Date:      Sun, 2 Dec 2007 01:32:37 +0100
From:      Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Lennart Koopmann <lennart@dev-my.org>
Subject:   Re: Linux /proc on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200712020132.37819.pieter@degoeje.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1196552904.16096.10.camel@sundaysister>
References:  <1196552904.16096.10.camel@sundaysister>

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On Sunday 02 December 2007, Lennart Koopmann wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> i am going to port a server that i am currently working on to FreeBSD.
> I don't have much experience with FreeBSD yet.
> The only real big thing i have to change is the way some data is
> fetched. In the Linux version i read in data like the hostname, the
> domainname, the kernel version etc from /proc.
Sysctls kern.hostname and kern.version.
>
> Is there a central point to look for those values in FreeBSD?
Yes, the sysctl MIB tree.
> If not, where do i get those values?
>
> I _don't_ want to use external binaries like sysctl etc...
man 3 sysctl :)

Hope this helps,
Pieter de Goeje



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