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| author | Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> | 2012-02-09 01:49:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> | 2012-02-09 01:49:04 -0800 |
| commit | 5021c119c76176171dba865cd5f8357dbc804826 (patch) | |
| tree | ddb9f7665c38713d6f93467b9dd69c455da27fef /sysctl.d/README | |
| parent | 29a1ad3d18e8539077ef9a9636ac2841553cb934 (diff) | |
sysctl.d: Include a README file for /etc/sysctl.d/
Our sysctl script has read from /etc/sysctl.d/ but the directory was not
created by default, and we didn't document it.
X-Gentoo-Bug: 398189
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398189
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'sysctl.d/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysctl.d/README | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysctl.d/README b/sysctl.d/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d208ee5c --- /dev/null +++ b/sysctl.d/README @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Kernel system variables configuration files + +Files found under the /etc/sysctl.d directory that end with .conf are +parsed within sysctl(8) at boot time. If you want to set kernel variables +you can either edit /etc/sysctl.conf or make a new file. + +The filename isn't important, but don't make it a package name as it may clash +with something the package builder needs later. It must end with .conf or else +it will not be read. + +The recommended locationfor local system settings is /etc/sysctl.d/local.conf +but as long as you follow the rules for the names of the file, anything will +work. See sysctl.conf(5) man page for details of the format. |