Hi Craig,
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006, Luk Claes wrote:
> Automatically configuring etc/sysctl.conf is not policy compliant for
> the moment as one needs to edit conffiles in the process.
>
> A solution might be to create the file in the maintainerscripts so it's
> no conffile...
Another simpler (and nicer) solution is simply to change
/etc/init.d/procps so that it uses the content of /etc/sysctl.conf but
also the content of /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf.
I would like to see this implemented because I have the case with another
custom Debian derivative where I'd like to change some kernel
parameters and it would be nice to be able to do that by dropping a file
in a standardized place instead of adding yet another startup script just
for that.
if [ ! -r /etc/sysctl.conf ]
then
exit 0
fi
log_action_begin_msg "Setting kernel variables"
sysctl -q -p
log_action_end_msg $?
could become:
for file in /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf /etc/sysctl.conf; do
if [ -r $file ]; then
log_action_begin_msg "Setting kernel variables ($file)"
sysctl -q -p $file
log_action_end_msg $?
fi
done
I left /etc/sysctl.conf at the end so it overrides any other file.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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