[arch-dev-public] Moving from procps to procps-ng?

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Apr 24, 2012 1:29 AM, "Eric Bélanger" <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The procps project didn't had any new release for a while and the
>>> current package use a dozen of patches to fix miscellenaous things.
>>> I'm thinking about switching to procps-ng[1]. Procps-ng is a fork of
>>> procps by Debian, Fedora and openSUSE.  Gentoo is also using procps-ng
>>> (although, like Debian, the package is still named procps).
>>>
>>> I also intend to replace the home made sysctl.conf that we currently
>>> provide by the upstream version of that file.
>>>
>>> Any comments, objections?
>>
>> +1
>
> Objection to the now-shipped /etc/sysctl.conf file, so I'm giving a -1
> signoff here. It moved my existing file to a .pacsave, and the
> defaults are total shit, not to mention the file is a formatting
> nightmare. Some lowlights:
>
> # see the evil packets in your log files
> net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians=1
>
> # makes you vulnerable or not :-)
> net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_redirects=0
> net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route=0
> net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts =1
>
>
> # This limits PID values to 4 digits, which allows tools like ps
> # to save screen space.
> kernel/pid_max=10000

+1.

Let's keep the existing default sysctl.conf from procps.