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MDDIAGNOSE(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					     MDDIAGNOSE(8)

NAME

     mddiagnose -- gather information to aid in diagnosing Spotlight issues

SYNOPSIS

     mddiagnose -h
     mddiagnose [-f path] [-e path] [-p path] [-n]

DESCRIPTION

     The mddiagnose tool gathers system and Spotlight information in order to assist Apple when investigating issues related to Spotlight. A great
     deal of information is harvested, spanning system state, system and Spotlight details.

   What mddiagnose Collects:
	   o   A spindump of the system
	   o   Several seconds of top output
	   o   Individual samples of mds and mdworker
	   o   Paths for all files used by Spotlight to contain its database on every volume
	   o   All system logs
	   o   All spin and crash reports for the following processes:
		  mds
		  mdworker

	   o   Recent spin and crash reports for the following processes, for all local users:
		  mds
		  mdworker

	   o   The query text and result quality statistics for recent Spotlight searches.  The actual results of the searches are not gathered
	   o   General information about disks and mounted network shares
	   o   The path of the last file indexed by each mdworker process on behalf of Spotlight.  The path of the last file which resulted in a
	       crash of an mdworker process.  In each case, only the path is gathered, not the contents of the file
	   o   Spotlight configuration for each volume currently mounted on your system.  This includes the path and size of all files used inter-
	       nally by Spotlight as well as a listing of paths that are user excluded from indexing
	   o   Comprehensive information about internal state of Spotlight

   What mddiagnose Doesn't Collect:
	   o   No user data is harvested from any volume
	   o   No paths or files found by any search are returned
	   o   No database storage or user files are returned
	   o   No authentication credentials are harvested from the system

OPTIONS

     -h      Print full usage.
     -m      Gather a subset of the normal report.
     -f path Write the diagnostic to the specified path.
     -p path Gather Spotlight permissions and filter information.  Run as owner of that file.

EXIT STATUS

     mddiagnose exits with status 0 if there were no internal errors encountered during the diagnostic, or >0 when an error unrelated to external
     state occurs or unusable input is provided by the user.

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KLDCONFIG(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      KLDCONFIG(8)

NAME

     kldconfig -- display or modify the kernel module search path

SYNOPSIS

     kldconfig [-dfimnUv] [-S sysctlname] [path ...]
     kldconfig -r

DESCRIPTION

     The kldconfig utility displays or modifies the search path used by the kernel when loading modules using the kldload(8) utility or the
     kldload(2) syscall.

     The following options are available:

     -d      Remove the specified paths from the module search path.

     -f      Do not display a diagnostic message if a path specified for adding is already present in the search path, or if a path specified for
	     removing is not present in the search path.  This may be useful in startup/shutdown scripts for adding a path to a file system which
	     is still not mounted, or in shutdown scripts for unconditionally removing a path that may have been added during startup.

     -i      Add the specified paths to the beginning of the search path, not to the end.  This option can only be used when adding paths.

     -m      Instead of replacing the module search path with the set of paths specified, ``merge'' in the new entries.

     -n      Do not actually change the module search path.

     -r      Display the current search path.  This option cannot be used if any paths are also specified.

     -S sysctlname
	     Specify the sysctl name to use instead of the default kern.module_path.

     -U      ``Unique-ify'' the current search path - if any of the directories is repeated one or more times, only the first occurrence remains.
	     This option implies -m.

     -v      Verbose output: display the new module search path.  If the path has been changed, and the -v flag is specified more than once, the
	     old path is displayed as well.

FILES

     /boot/kernel, /boot/modules, /modules
	     The default module search path used by the kernel.

EXIT STATUS

     The kldconfig utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     kldload(2), kldload(8), sysctl(8)

HISTORY

     The kldconfig utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4.

AUTHORS

     Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org>

BSD
								   June 15, 2001							       BSD

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