CDIST-TYPE__SYSCTL(7)

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version 7.0.0 · 8 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ cdist-type__sysctl ✨

okay bestie, welcome to cdist-type__sysctl, a lil page from the cdist manual (section 7, for the record 💅) and it's literally here to manage your sysctl settings. both kinds. the forever kind and the right-now kind. obsessed.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this type manages permanent sysctl settings and runtime sysctl settings. two vibes, one type. iconic.

  • Permanent settings get set by managing entries inside /etc/sysctl.conf. (the original says "Permament" with a typo and honestly? we respect the typo. it lives there forever now. no cap.)
  • Runtime settings get set by directly calling the sysctl executable. straight up, no middleman. periodt.

🎀 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 🎀

  • value — the value you want to set for the given key (that key being the object_id, iykyk). you gotta give it. it's required. it's giving main character energy and it's not optional. 🫶

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

the moment you've all been waiting for:

__sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward --value 1

and now the spicy one, with a comment straight from the source because it's important:

# On some operating systems, e.g. NetBSD, to prevent an error if the
# MIB style name does not exist (e.g. optional kernel components),
# name and value can be separated by `?=`. The same effect can be achieved
# in cdist by appending a `?` to the key:

__sysctl ddb.onpanic? --value -1

so yeah — on some operating systems, like NetBSD, if the MIB style name doesn't exist (think optional kernel components, the flaky ones 😭), you can dodge the error by separating the name and the value with ?=. and in cdist you get that same effect by just tacking a ? onto the key. slay. look at her go. ✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Steven Armstrong <steven-cdist--@--armstrong.cc>

💖 COPYING 💖

Copyright (C) 2014 Steven Armstrong. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later (GPLv3+).

ungleich GmbH 2021

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💜 this was version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 2022 — so if you're reading this from the future, hey, the sysctl lore has been frozen in time since then. go forth and tune your kernel 🦋✨

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