Your message dated Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:00:13 +1000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line sysctl man page has caused the Debian Bug report #953113, regarding /sbin/sysctl: man page for sysctl is ambiguous to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: normal File: /sbin/sysctl Dear Maintainer, you wrote in the 'man sysctl' for the -w option -w, --write Use this option when all arguments prescribe a key to be set. but it's also possible to write the key without it E.g. sysctl kernel.domainname="example.com" What is the function of the '-w' option? Is it optional? The man page seems to be a little bit ambiguous. Greetings and thanks, Tobias -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages procps depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libncurses6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii libncursesw6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii libprocps7 2:3.3.15-2 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii lsb-base 10.2019051400 Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 23.2-1 procps suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Package: procps Version 2:4.0.4-1 Version 4.0.4 had an update to the man page about what the write option does.
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