</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <para><filename>/usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf</filename></para>
<para><filename>/etc/sysctl.d/*.conf</filename></para>
+ <para><filename>/run/sysctl.d/*.conf</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<para>Note that both / and . are accepted as
separators in sysctl variable names.</para>
+ <para>Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
+ files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.
+ Files in <filename>/run</filename> overwrite files with
+ the same name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
+ <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages should install their
+ configuration files in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>, files
+ in <filename>/etc/</filename> are reserved for the local
+ administration, which possibly decides to overwrite the
+ configurations installed from packages. All files are sorted
+ by filename in alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
+ directories they reside, to ensure that a specific
+ configuration file takes precedence over another file with
+ an alphabetically later name.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>