I want to make "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" persistent between boots. I know that I can edit /etc/sysctl.conf to make /proc filesystem changes persist, but this doesn't seem to work for /sys. How would I make this change survive reboots?
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Most distros have some sort of an rc.local script that you could use. Check your distro as names and path may vary. Normally expect to look under /etc.
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1This is what I ended up doing, though @camh 's answer allowed me to google for this.
sysfs.confobviously doesn't exist on arch – xenoterracide Nov 28 '11 at 0:29 -
sysfsutils is packaged in AUR, but it seems that the sysfs.conf functionality is a debian patch that has not been upstreamed. – clacke Oct 17 '13 at 9:53
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Debian has the package sysfsutils which has an init.d script that can apply settings to /sys based on the configuration in /etc/sysfs.conf.
The init script has an @debian.org author, so I suspect that this is debian-specific and may not have made it to other non-Debian distributions. However, all the logic is contained in the init script, so you could quite easily grab that package, extract the script and use it on your system.
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/etc/sysctl.conf is read by one of your init scripts. This is somewhat distribution-dependent; on Debian, it's /etc/init.d/procps. Debian doesn't have anything like this for settings under /sys in its default installation (there's the sysfsutils package if you want it though). If your distribution doesn't either, write an init script of your own.
(Note that /etc/sysctl.conf doesn't make /proc/sys persistent: if you set something in /proc/sys, it isn't saved in /etc/sysctl.conf.)
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1@xenoterracide Not for
/procbut for sysctl values, which are exposed in/proc/sys. – Gilles Nov 28 '11 at 0:33 -
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