Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-8
Severity: normal
Files placed in /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf are not properly read and its values
not set in /etc/init.d/procps.
A patch to fix the issue is attached.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers gutsy
APT policy: (500, 'gutsy'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080405-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.2-7 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
-- no debconf information
--- procps.dpkg-dist 2008-04-07 23:34:11.000000000 +0100
+++ procps 2008-04-08 11:38:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
case "$1" in
start|restart|force-reload)
- for file in /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf /etc/sysctl.conf ; do
+ for file in /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf/* /etc/sysctl.conf ; do
if [ -r "$file" ] ; then
log_action_begin_msg "Setting kernel
variables ($file)"
sysctl -q -p "$file"
