sysctl.d — Configure kernel parameters at boot
/etc/sysctl.d/*.conf
/run/sysctl.d/*.conf
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
systemd uses configuration files from the above directories to configure sysctl(8) kernel parameters to load during boot.
The configuration files should simply contain a list of variable assignments, separated by newlines. Empty lines and lines whose first non-whitespace character is # or ; are ignored.
Note that both / and . are accepted as separators in sysctl variable names.
Each configuration file is named in the style of
<program>.conf
.
Files in /etc/
overwrite
files with the same name in /usr/lib/
.
Files in /run
overwrite files with
the same name in /etc/
and
/usr/lib/
. Packages should install their
configuration files in /usr/lib/
, files
in /etc/
are reserved for the local
administration, which possibly decides to overwrite the
configurations installed from packages. All files are sorted
by filename in alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
directories they reside, to ensure that a specific
configuration file takes precedence over another file with
an alphabetically later name.