severity 331191 wishlist thankyou On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:25:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > recently, the netbase package has begun to complain if the deprecated > file /etc/network/options is still being used. The suggested migration > way is to use /etc/sysctl.conf with appropriate entries. > > The /e/n/o option "spoofprotect" echos 1 into > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter, which prompts a sysctl.conf entry > of net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter=1. Why doesn't it use /net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter ? Isn't that the whole point of the all subdirectory.
> sysctl.conf doesn't grok this and complains about an invalid key. As it should, it is invalid key. > To ease the transition from /e/n/o to sysctl.conf, sysctl should be > able to expand the wildcard. Or use the right key. I have a real problem with getting sysctl to expand the keys; the admin should be pretty explicit about what he/she is turning on or off. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
