Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.16-5 Severity: normal My normal expectation with most things unix/linux is that administrator-controlled files in /etc supersede package-shipped files in /lib and /usr/lib.
However, the documented (and AFAICT actual) order of loading sysctl .conf files is: /run/sysctl.d/*.conf /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf /usr/local/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf /usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf /lib/sysctl.d/*.conf /etc/sysctl.conf This makes it super annoying/frustrating to ensure proper configuration as the settings in the files in /etc/sysctl.d/ can be overridden by almost everything else. It seems from the documentation that the intent is to allow the /etc/sysctl.d/ _files_ to override files of the same name in later directories, but this is rather confusing and frustrating. If I want to ensure some limit-style setting is raised to a high enough level, I have to make sure I know every package-provided file that might adjust that setting, and manually maintain a copy of every other setting that package provides, except the limit I want to raise. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (490, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set 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 1.58 ii libc6 2.31-3 ii libncurses6 6.2+20200918-1 ii libncursesw6 6.2+20200918-1 ii libprocps8 2:3.3.16-5 ii libtinfo6 6.2+20200918-1 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 23.3-1 procps suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
