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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-05-31 16:00:34 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-05-31 16:00:34 +0200
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downloadsystemd-9393a8774c1acd60deea40007061b9ffc783bf7e.tar.gz
man: add documentation for the binfmt, modules-load, sysctl services
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diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index 4f30276ad4..a4a495ee32 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -54,10 +54,12 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para><command>systemd</command> uses configuration
- files from the above directories to configure
+ <para>At boot,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-binfmt.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ reads configuration files from the above directories
+ to configure
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- kernel parameters during boot.</para>
+ kernel parameters.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -76,17 +78,17 @@
<para>Each configuration file shall be named in the
style of <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.
- Files in <filename>/run/</filename> override files
- with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.
- Files in <filename>/etc</filename> override files with
- the same name in <filename>/run/</filename> and
- <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages should
- install their configuration files in
+ Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> override files
+ with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>
+ and <filename>/run/</filename>. Files in
+ <filename>/run</filename> override files with the same
+ name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages
+ should install their configuration files in
<filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Files in
<filename>/etc/</filename> are reserved for the local
administrator, who may use this logic to override the
- configuration installed by vendor packages. All
- configuration files are sorted by their name in
+ configuration files installed by vendor packages. All
+ configuration files are sorted by their filename in
alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
directories they reside, to guarantee that a specific
configuration file takes precedence over another file
@@ -97,8 +99,8 @@
configuration file supplied by the vendor the
recommended way is to place a symlink to
<filename>/dev/null</filename> in
- <filename>/etc/sysctl.d</filename> carrying with the
- same name.</para>
+ <filename>/etc/sysctl.d/</filename> bearing the
+ same file name.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -115,6 +117,8 @@ kernel.domainname=example.com</programlisting>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-sysctl.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-delta</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>