On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote:
CC:ing emc-developers, and trinity-users who may not yet be aware of this 
tcp attack vector thats quite dangerous. And my post to trinity-users 
was in error, so this corrects it.

> Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > to add should be changed to forward slashes:
>
> You are wrong, sysctl supports both slashes and dots as separators.
>
> Regards,

I changed it back Nicolas, and sysctl -p now returns:
root@coyote:/etc/init.d# sysctl -p
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys//net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit: No such 
file or directory

Put the slashes back and I get this:
root@coyote:/etc/init.d# sysctl -p
.net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999

Which  I assume is the correct response.  And yet the echo shows all 
dots.

WTH?  Ahh, my bad, no damned biscuit, an extra leading slash snuck in. 
But if a dot and a slash are the same to sysctl, I should have a file in 
the wrong place? But I do not. /net is empty. It is in the right place 
now. And cats the correct value.

Sorry about the confusion everybody.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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