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misc: Update copyright of remaining man pages Giving them all a standard format and using either the existing header or the git logs to put the relevant authors in.
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.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
.\" Copyright (c) 2019-2023 Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 George Staikos <staikos@0wned.org>
.\"
.\" This program 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.
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.TH SYSCTL.CONF "5" "2021-09-15" "procps-ng" "File Formats"
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.SH NAME
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sysctl.conf \- sysctl preload/configuration file
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B sysctl.conf
is a simple file containing sysctl values to be read in and set by
.BR sysctl .
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The syntax is simply as follows:
.RS
.sp
.nf
.ne 7
# comment
; comment
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token = value
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.fi
.RE
.PP
Note that blank lines are ignored, and whitespace before and after a token or
value is ignored, although a value can contain whitespace within. Lines which
docs: some manpage fixes Some editorial changes so the man pages follow the standards. References: procps#173
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begin with a \fI#\fR or \fI;\fR are considered comments and ignored.
sysctl: ignore errors from lines starting with - The systemd sysctl ignores errors from preload files that start with a hyphen. This change brings the procps sysctl into line with their change. References: procps-ng/procps#138 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/13191 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/13141
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If a line begins with a single \-, any attempts to set the value that fail will be
ignored.
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.SH NOTES
misc: remove some newly introduced trailing whitespace Maybe some folks still need a few .gitconfig tweaks to catch the trailing whitespace errors a little earlier. Or, at the least, after a local commit they should do: $ git diff HEAD~1 [ and then check if git marks any with his red blobs ] Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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As the
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.BR /etc/sysctl.conf
file is used to override default kernel parameter values, only a small number of parameters is predefined in the file.
misc: remove some newly introduced trailing whitespace Maybe some folks still need a few .gitconfig tweaks to catch the trailing whitespace errors a little earlier. Or, at the least, after a local commit they should do: $ git diff HEAD~1 [ and then check if git marks any with his red blobs ] Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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Use
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.IR /sbin/sysctl\ \-a
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or follow
.BR sysctl (8)
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to list all possible parameters. The description of individual parameters can be found in the kernel documentation.
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Maximum supported line length of the value is 4096 characters due
to a limitation of \fI/proc\fR entries in Linux kernel.
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.SH EXAMPLE
.RS
.sp
.nf
.ne 7
# sysctl.conf sample
#
kernel.domainname = example.com
; this one has a space which will be written to the sysctl!
kernel.modprobe = /sbin/mod probe
.fi
.RE
.PP
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.SH FILES
sysctl: config directory order Matches the systemd directory order (/run is after /etc) and document what directories are used better.
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.I /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf
.br
.I /run/sysctl.d/*.conf
.br
.I /usr/local/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
.br
.I /usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
.br
.I /lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
.br
.I /etc/sysctl.conf
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The paths where
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.B sysctl
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preload files usually exist. See also
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.B sysctl
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option
.IR \-\-system .
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.SH SEE ALSO
docs: add preload paths to sysctl.conf.5 The patch also has other maintenance fixes, such as man header fixes, high lighting corrections and add bug report address. Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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.BR sysctl (8)
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.SH AUTHOR
docs: fix manual page warnings All warnings where about unnecessary quoting. The scriptlet below will tell what was wrong. for I in ./top/top.1 ./ps/ps.1 ./*.[0-9]; do echo "== $I warnings ==" man --warnings=all $I > /dev/null done This should probably be turned to 'make check' script. Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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.UR staikos@0wned.org
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George Staikos
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.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Please send bug reports to
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.UR procps@freelists.org
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