Package: procps
Version: 2:3.3.15-2
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/sysctl
Dear Maintainer,
you wrote in the 'man sysctl' for the -w option
-w, --write
Use this option when all arguments prescribe a key to be set.
but it's also possible to write the key without it
E.g.
sysctl kernel.domainname="example.com"
What is the function of the '-w' option? Is it optional?
The man page seems to be a little bit ambiguous.
Greetings and thanks,
Tobias
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libncurses6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
ii libncursesw6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
ii libprocps7 2:3.3.15-2
ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
ii lsb-base 10.2019051400
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 23.2-1
procps suggests no packages.
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