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Subject: [PATCH] sysctl man page claims kern.maxproc is changeable
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>Number:         7978
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] sysctl man page claims kern.maxproc is changeable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 18 11:20:07 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 28 19:00:39 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Mon Sep 28 19:11:31 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Jonathan Lemon
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
    FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT as of Thu Sep 17 16:23:38 CDT 

>Description:
    sysctl.8 man page claims that kern.maxproc is changeable.  It is not.

>How-To-Repeat:
	# id
	uid=0(root) gid=1000(jlemon) groups=1000(jlemon), 0(wheel)
	# sysctl -w kern.maxproc=1000
	sysctl: oid 'kern.maxproc' is read only

>Fix:

--- usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8.orig	Fri Sep 18 11:25:56 1998
+++ usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8	Fri Sep 18 11:19:51 1998
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 .It kern.osrevision	integer	no
 .It kern.version	string	no
 .It kern.maxvnodes	integer	yes
-.It kern.maxproc	integer	yes
+.It kern.maxproc	integer	no
 .It kern.maxprocperuid	integer	yes
 .It kern.maxfiles	integer	yes
 .It kern.maxfilesperproc	integer	yes
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkoshy 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 28 19:00:39 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in rev 1.17 of "src/usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8", thanks! 
>Unformatted:
