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The information available from
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The information available from
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.Nm
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.Nm
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consists of integers, strings, and opaques.
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consists of integers, strings, devices (dev_t),
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and opaque types.
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.Nm Sysctl
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.Nm Sysctl
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only knows about a couple of opaque types, and will resort to hexdumps
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only knows about a couple of opaque types, and will resort to hexdumps
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for the rest.
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for the rest.
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.Xr sysctl 3 .
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.Xr sysctl 3 .
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The changeable column indicates whether a process with appropriate
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The changeable column indicates whether a process with appropriate
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privilege can change the value.
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privilege can change the value. String, integer, and devices
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values can be set using
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.Xr sysctl 8 .
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For device values,
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.Ar value
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can be specified as a character special file name. Special
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values
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.Ar off
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and
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.Ar none
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denote ``no device''.
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.Bl -column security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf integerxxx
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.Bl -column security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf integerxxx
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.It Sy "Name	Type	Changeable
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.It Sy "Name	Type	Changeable
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.It "kern.ostype	string	no
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.It "kern.ostype	string	no
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.It "kern.osreldate	string	no
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.It "kern.osreldate	string	no
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.It "kern.bootfile	string	yes
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.It "kern.bootfile	string	yes
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.It "kern.corefile	string	yes
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.It "kern.corefile	string	yes
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.It "kern.dumpdev	dev_t	yes
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.It "kern.logsigexit	integer	yes
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.It "kern.logsigexit	integer	yes
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.It "security.bsd.suser_enabled	integer	yes
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.It "security.bsd.suser_enabled	integer	yes
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.It "security.bsd.see_other_uids	integer	yes
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.It "security.bsd.see_other_uids	integer	yes
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per uid to 1000, one would use the following request:
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per uid to 1000, one would use the following request:
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.Dl "sysctl kern.maxprocperuid=1000"
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.Dl "sysctl kern.maxprocperuid=1000"
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The device used for crash dumps can be specified using:
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.Dl "sysctl kern.dumpdev=/dev/somedev
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which is strictly equivalent to
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.Dl "dumpon /dev/somedev
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Information about the system clock rate may be obtained with:
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Information about the system clock rate may be obtained with:
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