On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 21:41, Andreas Wüst wrote: > Hi > > I want to alter some sysctl's during boot time, and, of course I could > do it via the sysctl configuration file itself, but I want to do some > "for f in .. done" and some "echo"ing. > > Since I want to do this during boot time, I thought I would put it in > /etc/init.d/, but since it is a script not installed by a .deb package, > I wondered if there is some better place to put user affiliated scripts. > > Second, policy would make one add some "start/stop/..." logic to the > scripts started via rcX, what would I want to put in "stop" etc., since > it would not be possible to restore original sysctl values, besides I > don't want them to alter anyway, I want them to stay after boot time. > Just some dummy entry doing nothing? > > I hope someone can help me figure this out, or point me to some stuff I > can RTFM (or to some more apprropriate list, since this is not very -powerpc > related, but I didn't want to ask on -devel).
Try editing /etc/sysctl.conf, it should be automatically read on boot. Cheers -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
