svn commit: r187142 - head/bin/kenv
Luigi Rizzo
luigi at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 13 04:19:47 PST 2009
Author: luigi
Date: Tue Jan 13 12:19:43 2009
New Revision: 187142
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187142
Log:
Document how kernel environment can be statically compiled in,
and reference a few related manpages.
MFC after: 3 days
Modified:
head/bin/kenv/kenv.1
Modified: head/bin/kenv/kenv.1
==============================================================================
--- head/bin/kenv/kenv.1 Tue Jan 13 11:51:32 2009 (r187141)
+++ head/bin/kenv/kenv.1 Tue Jan 13 12:19:43 2009 (r187142)
@@ -67,8 +67,28 @@ If the
.Fl q
option is set, warnings normally printed as a result of being unable to
perform the requested operation will be suppressed.
+.Pp
+Variables can be added to the kernel environment using the
+.Xr /boot/oader.conf
+file, or also statically compiled into the kernel using the statement
+.Pp
+.Dl Ic env Ar filename
+.Pp
+in the kernel config file.
+The file can contain lines of the form
+.Pp
+.Dl name = "value" # this is a coment
+.Pp
+where whitespace around name and '=', and
+everything after a '#' character, are ignored. Almost any printable
+character except '=' is acceptable as part of a name. Quotes
+are optional and necessary only if the value contains
+whitespace.
+.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kenv 2 ,
+.Xr config 5 ,
+.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
.Xr loader 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
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