Bug 756937

Summary:	sysctl.d scripts are not executed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	fedora, iarlyy, jcapik, jonathan, notting, plautrba, rvokal
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Description Carlo de Wolf 2011-11-25 08:21:57 UTC

Description of problem:

Settings specified in a sysctl.d file are not applied on boot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

initscripts-9.30.1-1.fc15.x86_64
procps-3.2.8-22.20110302git.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I've created a sysctl.d file according to the instructions at:
http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/IDEADEV/Inotify+Watches+Limit

# cat /etc/sysctl.d/intellij
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288

2. Reboot
  
Actual results:

When I reboot however the setting is not applied.
# sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 8192

Expected results:

# sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288

Additional info:

The only place where sysctl.d is applied is from /etc/init.d/network. So as I work-around I enabled the network service, leading to 708207 [1].

Based on 593211 [2] and 680529 [3] it seems to me that execution sysctl.d at the correct moment is a concern of the procps package, not initscripts.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708207
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593211
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680529

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-11-28 21:27:44 UTC

sysctl.d files need to end in .conf. See 'man sysctl.d'.

(Arguably, the initscripts support should be changed to enforce this.)