From d91532f3b39fe97b72cf162574d98cff572db969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: IMTheNachoMan Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:54:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 49285d5..7fbc8f8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1070,6 +1070,12 @@ I won't provide [For the lazy](#Editing-Configuration-Files---For-The-Lazy) code ``` bash sudo sysctl -p ``` + +**Note**: If `sysctl` has trouble writing any settings then `sysctl -w` or `sysctl -p` will write an error to `stderr`. You can use this to quickly find invalid settings in your `/etc/sysctl.conf` file: + + ``` bash + sudo sysctl -p >/dev/null + ``` ([Table of Contents](#table-of-contents))