From 17c50cc81e291d63f1df6c44b6499aa0200a0ec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Tanner <tanner.jc@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:48:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] sysctl module: fail if reloading the file did not succeed

---
 library/system/sysctl | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/library/system/sysctl b/library/system/sysctl
index 54f116c6c1..050c2effb1 100644
--- a/library/system/sysctl
+++ b/library/system/sysctl
@@ -189,8 +189,9 @@ class SysctlModule(object):
         else:
             # system supports reloading via the -p flag to sysctl, so we'll use that 
             rc,out,err = self.module.run_command([self.sysctl_cmd, '-p', self.sysctl_file])
-            
-        return rc,out+err
+
+        if rc != 0:            
+            self.module.fail_json(msg="Failed to reload sysctl: %s" % str(out) + str(err))
 
     # ==============================================================
     #   SYSCTL FILE MANAGEMENT