[procps] Re: wrong defaults for sysctl on arch linux
- From: Craig Small <csmall-procps@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:58:08 +1000
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:01:22AM +0200, geralt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> At least when running "sysctl -p" or "sysctl --system", the commands fail
> because they assume that /etc/sysctl.conf exists, and exit with an error
> when it is not found.
They are two different options which you behave two different ways.
sysctl -p is used to load in a single file. If you don't specify a file,
then it assumes you mean /etc/sysctl.conf
This to me is the correct behaviour; if you don't want the default file
then specify it.
Now --system is a little different. We're basically saying "config files
could be here, here or here, go find them and use those". One of those
files could be /etc/sysctl.conf
Only the absence of /etc/sysctl.conf causes a problem. This seems a
little odd to me.
So I think a compromise would work.
-p option stays the same
--system doesnt complain and set rc if it doesn't find /etc/sysctl.conf
I'll change it to set rc if it finds nothing.
- Craig
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