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- README for Debian package of procps
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- ipv6 sysctl keys
- ----------------
- Modern Debian kernel packages have the IPv6 module compiled in by default.
- This means that the /proc/sys/net/ipv6 directory exists when the procps
- startup script runs.
-
- However if you make your own kernel then you may make ipv6 a module and
- get a race condition between the netbase and procps startup scripts. This
- is because netbase, by default, causes ipv6 module to be loaded but
- they don't (and cannot) depend on each-other.
-
- The solution is to either:
- - Not put ipv6 keys into /etc/sysctl.d/* or /etc/sysctl.conf
- - Compile the ipv6 module into the kernel
- - Load the module early by putting ipv6 into /etc/modules
- - Make a init script dependency by adding netbase to the Required-Start
- line in /etc/init.d/procps
-
- pgrep
- -----
- pgrep is a new program, using the Unix standard name for something that
- greps for processes. If you are looking for Perl compatible regular
- expression grep, it is called pcregrep.
-
- forks
- -----
- Procps upstream is forked. This one comes from procps.sf.net I'm really
- not interested when the others have new versions so please don't bug me about
- it. However if you see something neat in the others and would like it in
- the Debian one, report a *wishlist* level bug about it.
-
- Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
-