Hello Bastien Thanks alot for your answer!
On Sonntag, 08-Jun-03 at 21:39:57, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 21:41, Andreas W�st wrote: >> Hi >> >> I want to alter some sysctl's during boot time, and, of course I >> could do it via the sysctl configuration file itself, but I want to >> do some "for f in .. done" and some "echo"ing. >> >> Since I want to do this during boot time, I thought I would put it in >> /etc/init.d/, but since it is a script not installed by a .deb >> package, I wondered if there is some better place to put user >> affiliated scripts. >> >> Second, policy would make one add some "start/stop/..." logic to the >> scripts started via rcX, what would I want to put in "stop" etc., >> since it would not be possible to restore original sysctl values, >> besides I don't want them to alter anyway, I want them to stay after >> boot time. Just some dummy entry doing nothing? >> >> I hope someone can help me figure this out, or point me to some stuff >> I can RTFM (or to some more apprropriate list, since this is not very >> -powerpc related, but I didn't want to ask on -devel). > > Try editing /etc/sysctl.conf, it should be automatically read on boot. Yeah, that's what I was talking about in the introduction, but there you can only feed single entries, you can't loop over several directories, and echoing is not possible. Of course I could add every single direction, but i) I am too lazy and ii) maybe there is some directory added (like in ../conf/*/..) and I would like to also catch the entries therein (if they match the filename of course.. ;) ). -- Best wishes, Andi
