On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore
<free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote:
...
> Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something
> conceptually similar to
>
> cat /etc/sysctl.d/* /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -f -
>
> Along with this (untested) patch to make sysctl understand "-f -".
>
> Hmmm, is /dev/stdin available as early as sysctl.conf runs? If not, the
> attached patch isn't going to work.
Why not just make sysctl understand multiple -f options? You're
probably going to run into more problems parsing from /dev/stdin and
it's going to obfuscate things a lot dealing with which file came
last, feeding back diagnostic info, etc.
Please don't "linuxise" this tool.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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