BSD equiv of /proc?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri May 5 14:12:30 UTC 2006


In the last episode (May 05), Jim Stapleton said:
> I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's  empty. I'm used to
> linux, where you can do stuff like 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to get
> information about the system. What is the BSD equivalent of this, or
> is it /proc, and I'm just missing something?

FreeBSD uses /proc for process-related stuff only.  System stats are
retrieved using the sysctl command.  Try running "sysctl -a" and see if
anything's useful.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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