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16 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
David Prévot
63ea47a628 sysctl.8: format fix in synopsis
a tiny patch to fix sysctl.8 synopsis
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/675848

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2013-01-01 13:16:33 +11:00
Mike Frysinger
e2987888e2 sysctl: restore old -p handling
The previous version of sysctl had the form:
	sysctl -p [file]
In other words, it required a space between the -p and the [file].
Omitting the space would lead to an error.

The new version though is the opposite:
	sysctl -p[file]
In other words, it requires there to not be a space.

Considering the old behavior has been around for a decade, and runtime
checking for this mismatch in behavior is silly, and supporting the old
syntax is trivial, add support for it.

When '-p regexp' is glob is used to make reqular expression to be
expanded to argument list, which also means that -p option will
allow multiple files being specified as input.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2012-05-07 09:01:10 +02:00
Sami Kerola
47100a8125 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>
2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
Sami Kerola
e01765d30b sysctl: deprecate parameters
According to arp(7) manual page base_reachable_time and retrans_time
are obsolete since kernel 2.6.12. Based on that the print all listing
will not show these two parameters, and attempt to set them will fail.

Reported-by: Alexandre Cavalcante Alencar <alexandre.alencar@gmail.com>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/599556
Reference: http://www.mail-archive.com/bk-commits-head@vger.kernel.org/msg03396.html
Reference: http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/7344177.html
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
2012-02-14 11:22:15 +01:00
Craig Small
58a6c89cd1 sysctl -p has no space
The man page has examples like sysctl -p filename. Optional arguments
using getopt cannot have a space between the option and argument.
So the correct format is sysctl -pfilename
2012-01-13 23:59:26 +11:00
Ludwig Nussel
7393599f73 sysctl: implement --pattern option
Useful for e.g network hook scripts together with --system to only apply
sysctls for a specific network interface.

Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
2011-12-20 17:17:03 +01:00
Ludwig Nussel
100959274c sysctl: add --system switch
instead of requiring distributions to construct a loop around sysctl
in boot scripts just scan a set of default directories if the --system
switch is used.

Config files are applied in alphabetic order of their base name.
Each base name is only applied once according to the directory
preference. /etc/sysctl.conf is always applied last.

Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
2011-12-20 17:17:03 +01:00
Sami Kerola
d9b78de4be docs: mention long options in man sysctl.8
The commit includes few generic manual clean ups as well.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
2011-12-20 17:17:02 +01:00
Jan Görig
039e2bb7df Manual pages fixes
Taken from Debian with small changes added

Authors: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>, Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
2011-02-23 09:17:54 +01:00
albert
a791f8034f sysctl: use - for stdin 2006-06-24 21:17:51 +00:00
albert
bc43342e2a update help text 2004-07-30 04:49:14 +00:00
albert
b357452770 sysctl -N 2004-07-15 15:22:23 +00:00
albert
aae2db6f9b Debian and Red Hat sysctl patches 2004-07-15 04:44:42 +00:00
albert
c36c11c6b2 NSA SELinux for Linux 2.6.xx 2003-12-24 04:18:24 +00:00
albert
c0e2e83dbd sysctl -e 2002-12-11 22:55:42 +00:00
csmall
03a9b5a30f procps 010114 2002-02-01 22:47:29 +00:00