On 01/08/2013 12:39 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 08.01.2013 um 20:25 schrieb Emmett Culley:
>> On 01/08/2013 02:58 AM, Michael Simpson wrote:
>>> On 2 January 2013 17:54, Emmett Culley <emmett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It depends on whether the changes you are making using sysctl are being
>>> affected by other processes later on in the startup sequence
>>>
>>> I have to run sysctl -p manually in order to stop kernel messages being
>>> printed to the console as even though i have them configured off in my
>>> sysctl this is overridden at some other point and i get to find out all
>>> about SoftMAC and its scanning ways
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760497
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
>> I ended up putting sysctl -p in to /etc/rc.local, which fixed the problem. I thought I'd read the rc.local is deprecated, so I resisted using it. Oh well...
>
>
> for sysctl configs i suggest the /etc/sysctl.d directory (create it if ...)
>
> for example:
>
> $ cat /etc/sysctl.d/vpn.conf
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
>
> --
> LF
>
There was no /etc/sysctl.d directory, so I created one and added a file with sysctl -p on the first line, still no change to my requested settings after a reboot. So I changed the file to look like:
#!/bin/bash
sysctl -p
and made it executable (just in case :-) and of course that didn't work either.
I've noted that there was a bug reported for RHEL5 that stated this would be fixed in 6. I guess that didn't happen. And I am not even certain that it isn't working as expected.
In the mean time I will stick to using /etc/rc.local.
Emmett
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