followed by <literal>=</literal>, see SYNOPSIS.</para>
<para>Any access permission errors and attempts to write variables not present on the local system are
- logged at debug level and do not cause the service to fail. Moreover, if a variable assignment is
- prefixed with a single <literal>-</literal> character, failure to set the variable for other reasons will
- be logged at debug level and will not cause the service to fail. In other cases, errors when setting
- variables are logged with higher priority and cause the service to return failure at the end (after
- processing other variables).</para>
+ logged at debug level and do not cause the service to fail. Other types of errors when setting variables
+ are logged with higher priority and cause the service to return failure at the end (after processing
+ other variables). As an exception, if a variable assignment is prefixed with a single
+ <literal>-</literal> character, failure to set the variable for any reason will be logged at debug level
+ and will not cause the service to fail.</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 each network interface as it