I'm partially confused by this bug. I wound up here in the process of filing Bug #292470. It's my observation that in Intrepid final, procps sources /etc/sysctl.conf *first*, which means it is being overridden by /etc/sysctl.d. This is the behavior desired by the requester of this bug, but the bug is not marked Fixed.
With that said, I agree with the latter posters here that sysctl.conf should be processed last, giving it the override, and that Ubuntu default configs should be moved to sysctl.d. I disagree with the initial request in this bug to make sysctl.d authoritative (Even though it currently is. Even though this bug is open and the README is wrong).
I'm partially confused by this bug. I wound up here in the process of filing Bug #292470. It's my observation that in Intrepid final, procps sources /etc/sysctl.conf *first*, which means it is being overridden by /etc/sysctl.d. This is the behavior desired by the requester of this bug, but the bug is not marked Fixed.
With that said, I agree with the latter posters here that sysctl.conf should be processed last, giving it the override, and that Ubuntu default configs should be moved to sysctl.d. I disagree with the initial request in this bug to make sysctl.d authoritative (Even though it currently is. Even though this bug is open and the README is wrong).