From af6a96a36415400482ad504392ea93c6a0e2ed43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:05:51 -0500

Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: add some hints how to override settings

Also a link to decent documentation for sysrq keys. It is surprising

hard to find.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-February/208412.html

(cherry picked from commit 16b65d7f463e91f6299dfa7b83d4b5fbeb109d1c)

---

 sysctl.d/50-default.conf | 9 ++++++++-

 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sysctl.d/50-default.conf b/sysctl.d/50-default.conf

index f18923399b..def151bb84 100644

--- a/sysctl.d/50-default.conf

+++ b/sysctl.d/50-default.conf

@@ -5,9 +5,16 @@

 #  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or

 #  (at your option) any later version.

-# See sysctl.d(5) and core(5) for for details.

+# See sysctl.d(5) and core(5) for for documentation.

+

+# To override settings in this file, create a local file in /etc

+# (e.g. /etc/sysctl.d/90-override.conf), and put any assignments

+# there.

 # System Request functionality of the kernel (SYNC)

+#

+# Use kernel.sysrq = 1 to allow all keys.

+# See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq for a list of values and keys.

 kernel.sysrq = 16

 # Append the PID to the core filename