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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-04-04 03:48:09 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-04-04 03:48:09 +0200
commitc91faef3b3facfdf13282aee957af25dd555890b (patch)
tree75194a9e227b0aad595e06ac799ed195e4a5de0b /man
parent151b190e79e64824552e01849352ca8f6ac7dedb (diff)
man: document /etc/sysctl.d/
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-rw-r--r--man/modules-load.d.xml2
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diff --git a/man/binfmt.d.xml b/man/binfmt.d.xml
index d2a0d7932c..64c27554e6 100644
--- a/man/binfmt.d.xml
+++ b/man/binfmt.d.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<!--
This file is part of systemd.
- Copyright 2010 Brandon Philips
+ Copyright 2011 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/man/modules-load.d.xml b/man/modules-load.d.xml
index 31ffd74bb7..34076916da 100644
--- a/man/modules-load.d.xml
+++ b/man/modules-load.d.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<!--
This file is part of systemd.
- Copyright 2010 Brandon Philips
+ Copyright 2011 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8f336dc0dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--*-nxml-*-->
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+<!--
+ This file is part of systemd.
+
+ Copyright 2011 Lennart Poettering
+
+ systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+-->
+<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>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><command>systemd</command> uses
+ <filename>/etc/sysctl.d/</filename> to configure
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ kernel parameters to load during boot. Each
+ configuration file is named in the style of
+ <filename>/etc/sysctl.d/&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Configuration Format</title>
+
+ <para>The configuration files should simply 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
+ separators in sysctl variable names.</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>