systemd/man/sysctl.d.xml
Lennart Poettering 5430f7f2bc relicense to LGPLv2.1 (with exceptions)
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.

Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.

The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.

The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
2012-04-12 00:24:39 +02:00

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<refentry id="sysctl.d">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sysctl.d</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<surname>Poettering</surname>
<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>sysctl.d</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>sysctl.d</refname>
<refpurpose>Configure kernel parameters at boot</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<para><filename>/etc/sysctl.d/*.conf</filename></para>
<para><filename>/run/sysctl.d/*.conf</filename></para>
<para><filename>/usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd</command> uses configuration
files from the above directories to configure
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
kernel parameters during boot.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Configuration Format</title>
<para>The configuration files contain a list of
variable assignments, separated by newlines. Empty
lines and lines whose first non-whitespace character
is # or ; are ignored.</para>
<para>Note that both / and . are accepted as label
separators within sysctl variable
names. <literal>kernel.domainname=foo</literal> and
<literal>kernel/domainname=foo</literal> hence are
entirely equivalent.</para>
<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
<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
alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
directories they reside, to guarantee that a specific
configuration file takes precedence over another file
with an alphabetically earlier name, if both files
contain the same variable setting.</para>
<para>If the administrator wants to disable a
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>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Example</title>
<example>
<title>/etc/sysctl.d/domain-name.conf example:</title>
<programlisting># Set kernel YP domain name
kernel.domainname=example.com</programlisting>
</example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>