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| author | Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> | 2013-09-12 04:00:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> | 2013-09-12 04:01:20 +0200 |
| commit | 7b4977254cdc1203b44211e00cdb3a0c318cfcf2 (patch) | |
| tree | b5e24ea79f215e09402d31529a16b63a9fab0aad /man/sysctl.d.xml | |
| parent | ac4c8d6da8b5ebc35f02c9c6cb7595be7b134a05 (diff) | |
man: fix description of file order application
Diffstat (limited to 'man/sysctl.d.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/sysctl.d.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml index ce5c34f9a2..155427cecf 100644 --- a/man/sysctl.d.xml +++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml @@ -90,10 +90,12 @@ configuration files installed by vendor packages. All configuration files are sorted by their filename 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> + directories they reside. If multiple files specify the + same variable name, the entry in the file with the + alphabetically latest name will be applied. It is + recommended to prefix all filenames with a two-digit + number and a dash, to simplify the ordering of the + files.</para> <para>If the administrator wants to disable a configuration file supplied by the vendor, the |