does /etc/sysctl.d/ really obeyed and does really override /etc/sysctl.conf

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 16.03.12 14:40, Muayyad AlSadi (alsadi at gmail.com) wrote:

> hi everybody,
> 
> in recent fedora releases I can see we have /etc/sysctl.d/
> 
> but does it really get evaluated
> 
> eg. let's put in /etc/sysctl.d/00-ojuba-enabled-sysrq.conf
> 
> kernel.sysrq = 1
> 
> and keep it 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
> kernel.sysrq = 0
> 
> then reboot then type
> 
> sysctl kernel.sysrq
> 
> it was reported that this would yield 0 (maybe when no wifi and no
> network at all)

/etc/sysctl.conf is interpreted after /etc/sysctl.d is. The former hence
overrides settings in the latter.

Lennart

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