Ben, you just closed the bug again. I assume this was by accident? Am 17.02.2014 11:45, schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System: > On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 20:19 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> > Hi Goffredo, >> > >> > Goffredo Baroncelli <kreij...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> > >> Solved, the configuration file should be processed *before* the >>>> > >> default >>>> > >> file. >>>> > >> So I named the file /etc/sysctl.d/01-sysrq.conf. >>> > > >>> > > Unfortunately the things are even more complex. Recently systemd changed >>> > > behaviour: with the latest version (207) the configuration must be >>> > > processed after the systemd default file: so the file will must be named >>> > > /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysrq.conf. >> > Thanks for the heads-up. >> > >> > >From the discussion I take it that there is no actual bug here, so I’m >> > closing this report. > There is a bug. You should not ship /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-default.conf . > > The default sysrq mask was reviewed some years ago by the kernel > maintainers and a sensible default (not 1) is set in official kernel > packages. This should not be overridden just because people switch to > systemd; nor should anyone else's customisation in /etc/sysctl.conf or > kernel build config.
The downside of this approach obviously is, that as soon as you switch kernels (e.g. use a self-compiled one), this setting changes. So explicitly setting the sysrq key imho has benefits. Do you remember, why you decided against using a sysctl.d snippet? Let me also add, that custom modifications, if done via /etc/sysctl.conf should be preserved, i.e. once [1] is fixed Do you also happen to remember where this discussion happened so we have some reference for this bug report. Michael [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737184 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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