Manoj Joseph wrote:
Hi,
In Linux, the procfs interface is used for more than just the process
related information. For instance, on my linux box, /proc/fs/nfs/exports
shows the nfs exports and /proc/vmstat has vm statistics etc...
A dumping ground of semi-structured information that is IMO a complete
abomination and should never have been added to /proc.
It looks like Solaris uses it only for exporting information relating to
processes.
Which is after all what it was originally designed for, proc being short
for process not proc short for dumping ground of stats and pseudo-stats.
Is my understanding correct? If it is, does Solaris have an alternative
for exporting more arbitrary information like Linux does?
Yes OpenSolaris does this in a much more structured way that the
arbitrary format text files that Linux does.
For most of the things you do cat /proc/<muble>/<sometextfile> there is
either a special admin command, or the data is available via kstats.
See kstats(1M) which is a perl program interface to the kstats library
functionality.
For your specific example of showing the NFS shares use the share(1M)
and/or sharemgr(1M) commands.
For your specific example of vm statistics use the vmstat command.
A few other commands you might find very useful for getting data that
Linux exports via /proc are:
prtdiag(1M), prtconf(1M), psrinfo(1M), smbios(1M).
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Darren J Moffat
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