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- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
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<filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp3s0.200/forwarding</filename>.
</para>
+ <para>Any access permission errors and attempts to write variables not defined on the local system are
+ logged, but do not cause the the service to fail. Moreover, if a variable assignment is prefixed with a
+ single <literal>-</literal> character, failure to set the variable will be logged, but will not cause the
+ service to fail. All other errors when setting variables cause the service to return failure at the end
+ (other variables are still processed).</para>
+
<para>The settings configured with <filename>sysctl.d</filename>
files will be applied early on boot. The network
interface-specific options will also be applied individually for