[arch-general] [procps-ng] archlinux default sysctl.conf

[Leonid Isaev]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:13:55 +1000
Gaetan Bisson <bisson at archlinux.org> wrote:

> [2013-06-13 19:58:06 -0500] Leonid Isaev:
> > 	After reading sysctl-related manpages in systemd, I started to
> > wonder about the logic behind /etc/sysctl.conf shipped with
> > core/procps-ng. If one follows systemd's conventions, this file should be
> > in /usr/lib/sysctl.d and mnemonically called something like
> > "100-archlinux-default.conf". Also note, that systemd currently doesn't
> > document /etc/sysctl.conf at all...
> 
> See: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-sysctl.service
> 
> This is the legacy location of the kernel parameters configuration file.
> Eventually I would like to get most things out of it and to /usr/lib/...
> In the meantime it's fine as it is; if you have any specific issues or
> want a parameter to be taken out to /usr/lib please open a feature
> request.

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, I know that systemd parses the legacy
sysctl.conf and I don't have any issues with the default (4 uncommented) sysctl
parameters, although I do change most of them :)

But after moving my configuration into /etc/sysctl.d/, I found it odd to keep
an empty sysctl.conf to "mask" the defaults (I don't know whether
/etc/sysctl.d has a higher preference than sysctl.conf in the current systemd)
instead of doing it via symlinks in /etc/sysctl.d/. It seems logical and
alignes with systemd documentation to have distro-specific settings in a
fixed-name .conf file inside /usr/lib/sysctl.d/...

> 
> Cheers.
> 

Best,
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Leonid Isaev
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