sysctl --system

[drbree82]

SUMMARY

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

ansible.posix.sysctl

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

running a shell command of

sysctl --system

can't be called using the module. Currently the only way to reload sysctl is to run

reload: yes

against every sysctl module.
Being able to do a general reload would be preferable to having to run shell or cmd calls.

- name: Reload sysctl config
  ansible.posix.sysctl:
    state: present
    reload: yes

[MubashirUsman]

Adding support for --system option would be useful as it will allow to reload configuration from other directories in the order below:
/etc/sysctl.d/*.conf
/run/sysctl.d/*.conf
/usr/local/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf
/etc/sysctl.conf
Currently module does support -p option which acts upon the specified file or /etc/sysctl.conf if not given.

[saito-hideki]

@drbree82 @MubashirUsman, In the current sysctl module, the name option is mandatory. Because the sysctl module is designed to set sysctl parameters for a single configuration file.
I think this enhancement is reasonable, but I believe your request is to perform a reload without specifying the name parameter, but in that case, we would need to make the name parameter optional.