SYSCTL.CONF(5) | File Formats Manual | SYSCTL.CONF(5) |
sysctl.conf
—
sysctl variables to set at system startup
sysctl.conf
contains a list of
sysctl(8) variable
assignments that is read at system startup by
rc(8) early on in the boot
sequence.
The file is made up of sysctl(8) variable assignments (variable=value) with comments designated by a hash mark (‘#’).
To turn on IP forwarding, one would use the following line:
net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
To cause the kernel to reboot on a panic, instead of dropping into the debugger, the following can be used:
ddb.panic=0
A sysctl.conf
file first appeared in
OpenBSD 2.3.
May 31, 2007 | OpenBSD-6.1 |