Re: diff for faq4.html email sensor info along with dmesg

Sevan / Venture37 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/12/2009 19:36, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> As mentioned on tech@ by Theo in the thread "i386 RAMDISK shrinkage
> suggestion"
> rev 1.88 of src/etc/root/root.mail includes this change
> bring faq4.html up to date aswell.
>
>
> Sevan Janiyan

Sorry, my bad, I forgot about the other references on the page.

--- faq4.html.orig	2009-12-14 14:31:31.000000000 +0000
+++ faq4.html	2009-12-14 14:36:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -2588,7 +2588,8 @@
  <blockquote><pre>
  If you wish to ensure that OpenBSD runs better on your machines, 
please do us
  a favor (after you have your mail system configured!) and type 
something like:
- # dmesg | mail -s "Sony VAIO 505R laptop, apm works OK" [email protected]
+ #  (dmesg; sysctl hw.sensors) | \
+	mail -s "Sony VAIO 505R laptop, apm works OK" [email protected]
  so that we can see what kinds of configurations people are running. 
As shown,
  including a bit of information about your machine in the subject or 
the body
  can help us even further.  We will use this information to improve 
device driver
@@ -2607,7 +2608,7 @@
  OpenBSD, so if that machine is unable to receive email, just

  <pre>
-$ dmesg | mail [email protected]
+$ (dmesg; sysctl hw.sensors) | mail [email protected]
  </pre>
  and then forward that message to
  <pre>
@@ -2639,7 +2640,7 @@
  Save your dmesg output to a text file.

  <pre>
-$ dmesg > ~/dmesg.txt
+$ (dmesg; sysctl hw.sensors) > ~/dmesg.txt
  </pre>

  Then transfer this file (using FTP/scp/floppydisk/carrier-pigeon/...) 
  to the
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