README for Debian package of procps =================================== ipv6 sysctl keys ---------------- Modern Debian kernel packages have the IPv6 module compiled in by default. This means that the /proc/sys/net/ipv6 directory exists when the procps startup script runs. However if you make your own kernel then you may make ipv6 a module and get a race condition between the netbase and procps startup scripts. This is because netbase, by default, causes ipv6 module to be loaded but they don't (and cannot) depend on each-other. The solution is to either: - Not put ipv6 keys into /etc/sysctl.d/* or /etc/sysctl.conf - Compile the ipv6 module into the kernel - Load the module early by putting ipv6 into /etc/modules - Make a init script dependency by adding netbase to the Required-Start line in /etc/init.d/procps pgrep ----- pgrep is a new program, using the Unix standard name for something that greps for processes. If you are looking for Perl compatible regular expression grep, it is called pcregrep. Craig Small