When should sysctl be run during boot?

[Matt Domsch]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:26:54PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 01/10/2007, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Jonathan Underwood (jonathan.underwood at gmail.com) said:
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > As modules could be loaded at any time, it would seem the most
> > correct way would be to do it via a modprobe.d or udev rule.
> >
> 
> I see your point. But, taken to it's logical conclusion, we'd scrap sysctl.conf
> completely.
> 
> Actually, that would be the right thing to do - it's currently a badly defined
> ad hock kludge.


How many modules export sysctls instead of module parameters?

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Matt Domsch
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