Feature changed by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #312343, revision 10 Title: get rid of /etc/sysconfig/sysctl openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: /etc/sysconfig/sysctl and therefore boot.proc and boot.ipconfig should be dropped in favor of directly using /etc/sysctl.conf Distro defaults should be provided via /lib/sysctl.d./*.conf so we don't produce . rpmnew files on upgrade. - 1) write script to convert old setings in aaa_base's %post [ready] - 2) write patch for sysctl to read /lib/sysctl.d/*.conf [ready] + 1) write script to convert old setings in aaa_base's %post [done] + 2) write patch for sysctl to read /lib/sysctl.d/*.conf [done] 3) adjust yast modules Affected yast modules: * security (IP_TCP_SYNCOOKIES, IP_FORWARD, IPV6_FORWARD, ENABLE_SYSRQ) * network (IP_FORWARD, IPV6_FORWARD) * tune (ENABLE_SYSRQ) Discussion: #1: Bruno Friedmann (bruno_friedmann) (2011-05-30 10:29:53) Can we also think about it's full integration with systemd. #2: Bruno Friedmann (bruno_friedmann) (2011-06-04 12:33:57) Just discover that's buggy. It forget to treat the IPV6_PRIVACY status variable. I've launch discussion on factory ml about. And yes Yast2 are unable to understand those new location. Didn't see here the bug report of that functionnality against Yast #3: Jiří Suchomel (jsuchome) (2011-09-08 09:47:34) What keys/values correspond to mentioned sysconfig values that are edited by YaST? + #4: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) (2011-09-08 09:56:04) (reply to #3) + see /lib/aaa_base/convert_sysctl -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312343