sysctl does not accept key value pairs with spaces, but perhaps should
Bug #1076331 reported by
Jason Spashett
This bug affects 1 person
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| procps (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
For example, the config files in /etc/sysctl.conf have spaces between name and value pairs
The problem is that the values probably get played into sysctl -w somehow
sysctl does not seem to accept name value pairs with spaces, yet it displayes them with spaces via sysctl -a
e.g.
sysctl -w vm.swappiness = 100 (won't work)
sysctl -w vm.swappiness=100 (works)
The existing files in /etc/sysctl.conf all seem to have spaces in thier settings, as if sysctl -a output was used to generate them.
probably sysctl should be modified to be more consistent / less confusing / error prone.
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| Jason Spashett (jspashett) wrote | #1 |
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The only realistic solutions appear to be:
(1) Make sysctl -a output name value paris without spaces for consistency
(2) Make the things that generate files in /etc/sysconf.d not put spaces in.
The way the sysctl command line works requires one or more name value pairs with no space seperation.