man: reword description of "-" in sysctl.d(5)

For #17177.
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2020-09-29 09:43:18 +02:00
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@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ key.pattern.overridden.with.glob = custom
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