From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:05:51 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: sysctl: add some hints how to override settings
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sysctl: add some hints how to override settings

Also a link to decent documentation for sysrq keys. It is surprising
hard to find.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-February/208412.html
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diff --git a/sysctl.d/50-default.conf b/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
index f18923399..def151bb8 100644
--- a/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
+++ b/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
@@ -5,9 +5,16 @@
 #  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
 #  (at your option) any later version.
 
-# See sysctl.d(5) and core(5) for for details.
+# See sysctl.d(5) and core(5) for for documentation.
+
+# To override settings in this file, create a local file in /etc
+# (e.g. /etc/sysctl.d/90-override.conf), and put any assignments
+# there.
 
 # System Request functionality of the kernel (SYNC)
+#
+# Use kernel.sysrq = 1 to allow all keys.
+# See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq for a list of values and keys.
 kernel.sysrq = 16
 
 # Append the PID to the core filename