[KLUG Members] RH Refuge Gotcha: SuSe & sysctl.conf

[Adam Tauno Williams]

What the heck, SuSe doesn't process /etc/sysctl.conf at startup?
Yikes, that is something to watch out for.  This seem REALLY WRONG.  My
settings in /etc/sysctl.conf don't take unless I manually run "sysctl
-p".

moa:~ # sysctl -p
kernel.shmmax = 1024000000
kernel.shmall = 2000000000
kernel.shmmni = 1024

One has to enable sysctl...

moa:/etc # chkconfig --list boot.sysctl
boot.sysctl               0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off 
6:off
moa:/etc # chkconfig --level 5 boot.sysctl on
moa:/etc # chkconfig --list boot.sysctl
boot.sysctl               0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:on  
6:off

For all users migrating from RH, there is a gotcha.