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diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index 4f30276ad..69aac8cab 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -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
@@ -76,17 +78,17 @@
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
+ 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
@@ -97,8 +99,8 @@
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 file name.
@@ -115,6 +117,8 @@ kernel.domainname=example.com
See Also
systemd1,
+ systemd-sysctl.service8,
+ systemd-delta1,
sysctl8,
sysctl.conf5