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From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:24:11 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH] man: document the new sysctl.d/ - prefix
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(cherry picked from commit e08be64937293e3aa8adb08048497520d58445c6)
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Related: #2037807
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---
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 man/sysctl.d.xml | 4 ++++
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 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
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index 7c8fde0dba..61820f2c4b 100644
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--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
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+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
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@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@
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     <filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp3s0.200/forwarding</filename>.
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     </para>
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+    <para>If a variable assignment is prefixed with a single <literal>-</literal> character, any attempts to
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+    set it that fail will be ignored (though are logged). Moreover, any access permission errors, and
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+    attempts to write variables not defined on the local system are ignored (and logged) too.</para>
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+
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     <para>The settings configured with <filename>sysctl.d</filename>
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     files will be applied early on boot. The network
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     interface-specific options will also be applied individually for