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diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index 51afbfa77..4f30276ad 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -7,16 +7,16 @@
Copyright 2011 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with systemd; If not, see .
-->
@@ -46,46 +46,59 @@
- /usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
/etc/sysctl.d/*.conf
/run/sysctl.d/*.conf
+ /usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
Description
- systemd uses
- /etc/sysctl.d/ to configure
+ systemd uses configuration
+ files from the above directories to configure
sysctl8
- kernel parameters to load during boot. Each
- configuration file is named in the style of
- /etc/sysctl.d/<program>.conf.
+ kernel parameters during boot.
Configuration Format
- The configuration files should simply contain a
- list of variable assignments, separated by
- newlines. Empty lines and lines whose first
- non-whitespace character is # or ; are ignored.
-
- Note that both / and . are accepted as
- separators in sysctl variable names.
-
- Files in /etc/ overwrite
- files with the same name in /usr/lib/.
- Files in /run overwrite files with
- the same name in /etc/ and
- /usr/lib/. Packages should install their
- configuration files in /usr/lib/, files
- in /etc/ are reserved for the local
- administration, which possibly decides to overwrite the
- configurations installed from packages. All files are sorted
- by filename in alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
- directories they reside, to ensure that a specific
- configuration file takes precedence over another file with
- an alphabetically later name.
+ The configuration files contain a list of
+ variable assignments, separated by newlines. Empty
+ lines and lines whose first non-whitespace character
+ is # or ; are ignored.
+
+ Note that both / and . are accepted as label
+ separators within sysctl variable
+ names. kernel.domainname=foo and
+ kernel/domainname=foo hence are
+ entirely equivalent.
+
+ Each configuration file shall be named in the
+ style of <program>.conf.
+ Files in /run/ override files
+ with the same name in /usr/lib/.
+ Files in /etc override files with
+ the same name in /run/ and
+ /usr/lib/. Packages should
+ install their configuration files in
+ /usr/lib/. Files in
+ /etc/ are reserved for the local
+ administrator, who may use this logic to override the
+ configuration installed by vendor packages. All
+ configuration files are sorted by their name in
+ alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
+ directories they reside, to guarantee that a specific
+ configuration file takes precedence over another file
+ with an alphabetically earlier name, if both files
+ contain the same variable setting.
+
+ If the administrator wants to disable a
+ configuration file supplied by the vendor the
+ recommended way is to place a symlink to
+ /dev/null in
+ /etc/sysctl.d carrying with the
+ same name.