Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.17-5 Hi,
Procps includes a sysctl configuration file in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/ that disallows root from overwriting group-writable files in setgid directories. As this interferes with our backup script, we initially tried to override it with a local file in /etc/sysctl.d, but this at first failed due to the "interesting" way how systemd manages priorities among those configuration files. Apparently, systemd recommends to call those files NN-xyz.conf, with NN being a pair of decimals to be used for ordering, as detailed in Lennart Poettering's answer to this bug-report: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20919 Procps' protect-links.conf file does unfortunately not follow this convention. If for example the file was called 10-protect-links.conf, sysadmins could easily override it by calling their file 99-allow-links.conf We solved the issue locally by calling our file zz-allow-links.conf, but I thought I'd mention this here in order to spare a lengthy search to fellow sysadmins who might have the same need. Thanks, Alain
