X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsysctl.d.xml;h=5544283d49a229e5245ea04f17972e958b5be0d3;hb=6bebb0add4d7c32c503e688105c1607e5e20f979;hp=759b8740f57df5610493f049764d43a86a7c120d;hpb=e670b166a08b7c1031a9e7d7675fa9a29c3e19c9;p=elogind.git

diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index 759b8740f..5544283d4 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -89,18 +89,20 @@
                 administrator, who may use this logic to override the
                 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 later name, if both files
-                contain the same variable setting.</para>
+                lexicographic order, regardless of which of the
+                directories they reside in. If multiple files specify the
+                same variable name, the entry in the file with the
+                lexicographically latest name will be applied. It is
+                recommended to prefix all filenames with a two-digit
+                number and a dash, to simplify the ordering of the
+                files.</para>
 
                 <para>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
                 <filename>/dev/null</filename> in
                 <filename>/etc/sysctl.d/</filename> bearing the
-                same file name.</para>
+                same filename.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>