<?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 Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser 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> <para><filename>/run/sysctl.d/*.conf</filename></para> <para><filename>/usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf</filename></para> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para>At boot, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-sysctl.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> reads configuration files from the above directories to configure <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> kernel parameters.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Configuration Format</title> <para>The configuration files 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 label separators within sysctl variable names. <literal>kernel.domainname=foo</literal> and <literal>kernel/domainname=foo</literal> hence are entirely equivalent.</para> <para>Each configuration file shall be named in the style of <filename><program>.conf</filename>. Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> override files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename> and <filename>/run/</filename>. Files in <filename>/run/</filename> override files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages should install their configuration files in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> are reserved for the local administrator, who may use this logic to override the 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> <para>If the administrator wants to disable a configuration file supplied by the vendor the recommended way is to place a symlink to <filename>/dev/null</filename> in <filename>/etc/sysctl.d/</filename> bearing the same file name.</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>systemd-sysctl.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-delta</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>