I understand that the contents of /etc/sysctl.conf should be read and executed at system startup. However that never happens and I have to run sysctl -p after every reboot to get the settings I want. This is happening on every CentOS machine and VM I have. I can see in the startup scripts that "sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf >/dev/null 2>&1" is run at start up by the "apply_sysctl" function, yet the settings are never correct unless I run sysctl -p on the command line. Anybody know why that would be? I am running the latest updates on CentOS 6.3 Emmett _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos