X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsysctl.d.xml;h=69e96ee9e580aaf963602aa2fccd84beb56323f6;hp=20f2e24820e53e2d38225a5e5593c526a1a12dc4;hb=44ded3abc28620279633f51a05f2416e5aa3e8e2;hpb=19c5f19d69bb5f520fa7213239490c55de06d99d diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml index 20f2e2482..69e96ee9e 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 . --> @@ -54,19 +54,21 @@ Description - systemd uses configuration - files from the above directories to configure - sysctl8 - kernel parameters during boot. + At boot, + systemd-sysctl.service8 + reads configuration files from the above directories + to configure + sysctl8 + kernel parameters. - Configuration Format + Configuration Format - 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. + 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 @@ -75,30 +77,30 @@ 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 + style of program.conf. + Files in /etc/ override files + with the same name in /usr/lib/ + and /run/. Files in + /run/ override files with the same + name in /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 + configuration files installed by vendor packages. All + configuration files are sorted by their filename 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 + with an alphabetically later name, if both files contain the same variable setting. If the administrator wants to disable a - configuration file supplied by the vendor the + 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. + /etc/sysctl.d/ bearing the + same filename. @@ -115,6 +117,8 @@ kernel.domainname=example.com See Also systemd1, + systemd-sysctl.service8, + systemd-delta1, sysctl8, sysctl.conf5