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authorjmc <jmc@openbsd.org>2006-04-21 10:51:08 +0000
committerjmc <jmc@openbsd.org>2006-04-21 10:51:08 +0000
commit7549aa02d108a4adcc82422127ccd9c46ce4356c (patch)
treef6a202a0ed4cb115bc3dc65d379feafbb864fb94
parentthe esm_sensor_maps describe esm sensors, not kernel sensors. i have no (diff)
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document retreiving a subset of sysctls;
based on a diff by janne johansson; rewritten by myself...
-rw-r--r--sbin/sysctl/sysctl.89
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diff --git a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
index 8f7ac6a8ebf..936aaa36ded 100644
--- a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
+++ b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.127 2005/10/05 17:38:58 norby Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.128 2006/04/21 10:51:08 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.4 1995/09/30 07:12:49 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
@@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ The state to be retrieved or set is described using a
.Pq MIB
style name, described as a dotted set of components.
.Pp
+When retreiving a variable,
+a subset of the MIB name may be specified to retreive a list of
+variables in that subset.
+For example, to list all the machdep variables:
+.Pp
+.Dl $ sysctl machdep
+.Pp
When setting a variable,
the MIB name should be followed by an equal sign and the new value.
Variables are set implicitly using the