DESCRIPTION

Manage sysctl via a sysctl provider.

NOTE: If you are getting this from the community site it's named jn_sysctl. Due to some internal requirements the metadata sets it's name to "sysctl" this could cause some confusion.

WARNING: The default behavior on non-debian flavors is to write out /etc/sysctl.conf, which if you don't have settings in chef means you can kill your existing config. the sysctl_file atribute can control where this file goes in a role/override if you wish.

Attributes

• sysctl: Hash of k/v pairs with sysctl settings.
• sysctl_file: The location we write out the configuration defaults to /etc/sysctl.conf on anything not debian flavor defaults to /etc/sysctl.d/99-chef.conf on debian

Recipes

• attribute_driver.rb: Reads attributes set in node[:sysctl][:values], and sets sysctl resources with the values
• default.rb: Simply sets up the resources needed to use the lwrp
• library.rb: Empty recipe if you want to avoid default, but still want to explicitly include (for whatever reason)

Sysctl LWRP

Properties

• name: The key name. Defaults to the resource name i.e. sysctl "some.key"
• value: what to set this key to
• save: save the setting back to the node data (default: false)

Actions

• :set Make sure the running state is set (default)
• :write Write the config file (default)

Known Bugs

• only intended to be used on Linux

Example Usage

LWRP

Ensure running state, and write this key to sysctl.conf

sysctl "kernel.sysrq" do
   value 1
end

Check out [example/recipes/example.rb] 2 For more recipe examples.

Attributes

In a role attribute or override:

{
  "sysctl": {
    "net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling": 0
  }
}

Check out [example/attributes/example.rb] 1 For more attribute examples.

Author and License

Author Jesse Nelson spheromak@gmail.com

Copyright 2011-2013, Jesse Nelson

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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