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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2019-07-26 09:24:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2019-07-26 09:24:47 +0200 |
| commit | e08be64937293e3aa8adb08048497520d58445c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1002896b07f89f45019fd73777987739f8e15109 /man/sysctl.d.xml | |
| parent | dec02d6e1993d420a0a94c7fec294605df55e88e (diff) | |
| download | systemd-e08be64937293e3aa8adb08048497520d58445c6.tar.gz | |
man: document the new sysctl.d/ - prefix
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diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml index 0a8eeb62a4..21ef6de97c 100644 --- a/man/sysctl.d.xml +++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml @@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ <filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp3s0.200/forwarding</filename>. </para> + <para>If a variable assignment is prefixed with a single <literal>-</literal> character, any attempts to + set it that fail will be ignored (though are logged). Moreover, any access permission errors, and + attempts to write variables not defined on the local system are ignored (and logged) too.</para> + <para>The settings configured with <filename>sysctl.d</filename> files will be applied early on boot. The network interface-specific options will also be applied individually for |