/etc/sysctl.d/trident-core.conf entries not processed

[ghost]

sysctl entries in /etc/sysctl.d/trident-core.conf are not processed during startup.

currently not working on 18.11-PRERELEASE_2

steps to reproduce:

1. to see just the requested sysctls in that file:

cd /etc/sysctl.d
cat trident-core.conf | grep -v "^#" | sort -u | awk '{print $1}'

2. to see the actual values on a running system:

cd /etc/sysctl.d
for i in `cat trident-core.conf | grep -v "^#" | sort -u | awk -F '=' '{print $1}'`
do
sysctl $i
done

[ghost]

ok, in /etc/init.d/sysctl, in function BSD_sysctl(), the line at the top of the function

[ -e /etc/sysctl.conf ] || return 0

says, if /etc/sysctl.conf does not exist, return zero and do not process the rest of the file, meaning do not process any /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf entries.

this is an openrc dev issue, but can be patched, by just adding an empty /etc/sysctl.conf during overlay time.

i'll update the ticket with this detail

[beanpole135]

Trident has that file existance check already hot-patched for future checks on bootup:
https://github.com/project-trident/trident-core/blob/master/core-files/usr/local/share/trident/scripts/system-sanity-check.sh

Should be fixed in 18.12-PRERELEASE_2 or later.