When should sysctl be run during boot?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:27:10 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 
>> I could be wrong, but I don't think anything exports a seetting that
>> is only changeable with sysctl that is not also changeable by echo'ing
>> to a file under /proc/sys - sysctl seems rather obsolete in this
>> respect.
> 
> Personally, I prefer sysctl for that. Works better with sudo.
> 

I agree that sysctl (or a similar tool - i'm not religious in this area) 
is probably wanted, albeit not required on a system. Like I stated 
somewhere else, sysctl "only" modifies things in /proc/sys that you 
could easili do with something else. There is nothing that you can do 
with sysctl that you can't do with echo, cat and find. Apart from having 
a simple way to set a lot of different values in one go.

/Thomas

/Thomas