On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> wrote: > Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> systemd isn't the first package to allow/promote shipping distro >> settings in "/lib" or "/usr/lib" and overriding them via "/etc"; udev >> and polkit/policykit have behaved like this for a long time. There's >> also "/usr/lib/sysctl.d/" where a distro ship settings that can be >> overridden via "/etc/sysctl.d/". > > "/usr/lib/sysctl.d/" is systemd specific. Dropping files there won't do > anything unless you run the systemd-sysctl service. > > "/etc/sysctl.d/" used to be owned by procps, and will still be used by > /etc/init.d/procps whether or not you run systemd-sysctl.
Perhaps a few years ago: # strings $(which sysctl) | grep 'sysctl.d' /run/sysctl.d /etc/sysctl.d /usr/local/lib/sysctl.d /usr/lib/sysctl.d # dpkg -S $(which sysctl) procps: /sbin/sysctl # Also codesearch.debian.net shows more than systemd as a user of "/usr/lib/sysctl.d/".
