"/var/log/messages" logs appear in the output of "sysctl -a"

[Max Laier]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 12:30:20 Eitan Shefi wrote:
> I am testing a NIC driver.
> I found it's logs and "/var/log/messages" logs in the output of "sysctl
> -a":
> I run "sysctl -a | less", and there I find:
>
> kern.devstat.version: 6
> kern.devstat.generation: 137
> kern.devstat.numdevs: 1
> kern.kobj_methodcount: 143
> kern.log_wakeups_per_second: 5
> kern.msgbuf_clear: 0
> kern.msgbuf: ound file system checks in 60 seconds.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<...>
> Any idea how can such logs apear in "sysctl -a" ?

The kernel message buffer is exported via a sysctl (kern.msgbuf) and as you 
asked to see all sysctl - this one is included, too.  This is not a message 
for freebsd-hackers@ btw!

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