On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> The point of sysctl as I understand it is to support SNMP-like management
> of the machine.  Having N 'ctl' utilities with separate MIBs completely
> undermines this -- those separate MIBs should live under the sysctl MIB
> somewhere.

And while we're at it, why not make it _really_ SNMP-like, and provide
an SNMP/UDP interface so we can maybe interrogate/manage remotely?

No, I'm not volunteering to do the work - I'm afraid it is quite out of
my realm of expertise.  :(

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