--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+
+PROGRAM="sysctl"
+
+SYSCTL_ARGS=""
+
+# shellcheck source=/dev/null
+[ -r "/etc/default/$PROGRAM" ] && . "/etc/default/$PROGRAM"
+
+# Files are read from directories in the SYSCTL_SOURCES list, in the given
+# order. A file may be used more than once, since there can be multiple
+# symlinks to it. No attempt is made to prevent this.
+SYSCTL_SOURCES="/etc/sysctl.d/ /usr/local/lib/sysctl.d/ /usr/lib/sysctl.d/ /lib/sysctl.d/ /etc/sysctl.conf"
+
+# The "--system" option activates "--ignore", which is bad because invalid
+# variable settings in the configuration files will not be reported on the
+# system log. Use some scripting to mimic the --system behavior but still
+# reporting errors. Users not interested on error report can put "-e" in
+# SYSCTL_ARGS.
+#
+# The file redirections do the following:
+#
+# - stdout is redirected to syslog with facility.level "kern.info"
+# - stderr is redirected to syslog with facility.level "kern.err"
+# - file dscriptor 4 is used to pass the result to the "start" function.
+#
+run_program() {
+ # shellcheck disable=SC2086 # we need the word splitting
+ find $SYSCTL_SOURCES -maxdepth 1 -name '*.conf' -print0 2> /dev/null | \
+ xargs -0 -r -n 1 readlink -f | {
+ prog_status="OK"
+ while :; do
+ read -r file
+ if [ -z "$file" ]; then
+ echo "$prog_status" >&4
+ break
+ fi
+ echo "* Applying $file ..."
+ /sbin/sysctl -p "$file" $SYSCTL_ARGS || prog_status="FAIL"
+ done 2>&1 >&3 | /usr/bin/logger -t sysctl -p kern.err
+ } 3>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t sysctl -p kern.info
+}
+
+start() {
+ printf '%s %s: ' "$1" "$PROGRAM"
+ status=$(run_program 4>&1)
+ echo "$status"
+ if [ "$status" = "OK" ]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+ return 1
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+ start)
+ start "Running";;
+ restart|reload)
+ start "Rerunning";;
+ stop)
+ :;;
+ *)
+ echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload}"
+ exit 1
+esac