[arch-projects] [PATCH] initscripts: load of sysctl files at startup

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:10:32PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Seblu <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:44:17PM +0200, Earendil wrote:
> >>>> I have also added the capability to stip th sysctl.conf files in many
> >>>> files in the sysctl.d directory.
> >>>> This idea was inspired by Debian architecture.
> >>>
> >>> Sure, systemd uses this as well. Do we have any cases where distributing
> >>> a sysctl file with a package is needed? I'm really not sure this is
> >>> something that's wanted/needed in Arch.
> >>
> >> I agree with Dave, if we are going to support this there should be at
> >> least one user of it. Are there any packages that either already ship
> >> with their own sysctl file, or that would benefit from doing it?
> > As /etc/udev/rules.d, sysctl.d can be reserved for users.
> >
> > It's a very pratical way of setting system config. Make it a default,
> > is a good advice for users.
> > It will maybe also help packager which want add some systcl param.
> > (chicken or the egg?)
> 
> I'm all for it if we have users (packages). I.e. if there are packages
> that could use this, I'd be happy to merge a patch. A candidate would
> be any package that instructs the user to add something to
> sysctl.conf. I have not seen this, but maybe it exists.

Well...

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$ grep 'sysctl.conf' /var/abs/*/*/*.install
/var/abs/community/radvd/radvd.install:add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:
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> 
> If we start shipping files in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/, then the counerpart
> in /etc makes sense for user files and as an override mechanism.
> However, if there are no shipped files, then the user might as well
> keep all the config in /etc/sysctl.conf.
> 
> -t