3 <refname>/etc/sysconfig/</refname>
4 <refpurpose>Basic system settings</refpurpose>
7 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename></title>
10 <term>KEYTABLE=<keytable file></term>
11 <listitem><para>for example:
12 KEYTABLE="/usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.map"</para>
19 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/mouse</filename></title>
22 <term>MOUSETYPE=microsoft|mouseman|mousesystems|ps/2|msbm|logibm|atibm|
23 logitech|mmseries|mmhittab</term>
24 <listitem><para> </para>
28 <term>XEMU3=yes|no</term>
29 <listitem><para>(emulate three buttons with two buttons whenever
30 necessary, most notably in X)</para>
34 <para>In addition, /dev/mouse points to the mouse device.</para>
37 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/network</filename></title>
39 <varlistentry><term>NETWORKING=yes|no</term>
40 <listitem><para>IPV6NETWORKING=yes|no</para>
43 <varlistentry><term>HOSTNAME=$<whatever hostname you want></term>
44 <listitem><note><para> for compatibility with some old software people might
45 install (like trn), the /etc/HOSTNAME file should contain the
46 same value as here.</para></note>
49 <varlistentry><term>IGNORE_ICMP_BCAST_IPV4=yes|no</term>
50 <listitem><para>(Please note that if you accept ICMP echo
51 requests with a broadcast/multicast destination address your network
52 may be used as an exploder for denial of service packet flooding attacks
53 to other hosts.</para>
57 <term>SPOOFING_IPV4=yes|no</term>
59 <para>(anti spoofing protection)</para></listitem>
63 <term>GATEWAY=<gateway IP></term>
72 <term>GATEWAYDEV=<gateway device></term>
80 <term>NISDOMAIN=<nis domain name></term>
87 <term>IPX=yes|no</term>
95 <term>IPXAUTOPRIMARY=on|off</term>
98 (note, that MUST be on|off, not yes|no)</para>
103 <term>IPXAUTOFRAME=on|off</term>
106 (again, not yes|no)</para>
111 <term>IPXINTERNALNETNUM=<netnum></term>
119 <term>IPXINTERNALNODENUM=<nodenum></term>
125 <para>All the IPX stuff is optional, and should default to off.</para>
129 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/static-nat</filename></title>
131 Configuration file for static Network Address Translation (NAT).
132 Contains lines of the form:</para>
134 <literal><address> via <addressreal></literal></para>
136 NAT will translate address <address> to <addressreal>.</para>
139 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/static-routes</filename></title>
140 <para>Contains lines of the form:</para>
141 <para><literal><device> to [type] <network>/<prefix> via <gateway></literal></para>
142 <para><device> may be a device name to have the route brought up and
143 down with the device, or "none" if the route is not to be bound to any specific
144 device. [type] is optional. RH style isn't supported !</para>
145 <para>Also you can set few options after "<gateway>":</para>
146 <simplelist columns=1>
147 <member>tos <tos></member>
148 <member>metric <number></member>
149 <member>table <table></member>
150 <member>src <address></member>
151 <member>realm <realmid></member>
152 <member>mtu <mtu> or mtu lock <mtu></member>
153 <member>window <number></member>
154 <member>rtt <number></member>
155 <member>nexthop <nexthop></member>
156 <member>scope <scope></member>
157 <member>protocol <rtproto></member>
158 <member>onlink</member>
159 <member>equalize</member>
162 <para>For more informations see iproute2 documentation .</para>
166 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/static-routes6</filename></title>
167 <para>Same as <filename>/etc/sysconfig/static-routes</filename> but
172 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/routed</filename></title>
174 <member>SILENT=yes|no</member>
175 <member>EXPORT_GATEWAY=yes|no</member>
180 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia</filename></title>
182 <member>PCMCIA=yes|no</member>
183 <member>PCIC=i82365|tcic</member>
184 <member>PCIC_OPTS=<socket driver (i82365 or tcic) timing parameters></member>
185 <member>CORE_OPTS=<pcmcia_core options></member>
186 <member>CARDMGR_OPTS=<cardmgr options></member>
191 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/amd</filename></title>
193 <varlistentry><term>ADIR=/.automount</term>
194 <listitem><para>(normally never changed)</para></listitem>
196 <varlistentry><term>MOUNTPTS='/net /etc/amd.conf'</term>
197 <listitem><para>(standard automount stuff)</para></listitem>
199 <varlistentry><term>AMDOPTS=</term>
200 <listitem><para>(extra options for AMD)</para></listitem>
206 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/tape</filename></title>
208 <varlistentry><term>DEV=/dev/nst0</term>
211 Tape device. Use the non-rewinding one for these scripts.</para>
213 For SCSI tapes this is /dev/nst#, where # is the number of the
214 tape drive you want to use. If you only have one then use
217 For IDE tapes you use /dev/ht#, where # is the number of the tape
218 drive you want to use (usually ht0).</para>
220 For floppy tape drives use /dev/ftape.</para>
224 <varlistentry><term>ADMIN=root</term>
225 <listitem><para>Person to mail to if the backup fails for any reason</para>
233 Time to sleep between tape operations. Some drives need a bit
234 more than others, but 5 seems to work for 8mm, 4mm, and DLT</para>
239 <term>BLOCKSIZE=32768</term>
242 This worked fine for 8mm, then 4mm, and now DLT. An optimal
243 setting is probably however much data your drive writes at one
249 <term>SHORTDATE=$(date +%y:%m:%d:%H:%M)</term>
252 A short date string, used in backup log filenames.</para>
258 <term>DAY=$(date +log-%y:%m:%d)</term>
261 This is used for the log file directory.</para>
266 <term>DATE=$(date)</term>
269 Regular date string, used in log files.</para>
274 <term>LOGROOT=/var/log/backup</term>
277 Root of the logging directory</para>
282 <term>LIST=$LOGROOT/incremental-list</term>
285 This is the file name the incremental backup will use to store
286 the incremental list. It will be $LIST-{some number}.
292 <term>DOTCOUNT=$LOGROOT/.count</term>
295 For counting as you go to know which incremental list to use
302 <term>COUNTER=$LOGROOT/counter-file</term>
305 For rewinding when done...might not use.
311 <term>BACKUPTAB=/etc/backuptab</term>
314 The file in which we keep our list of backup(s) we want to make.
322 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/sendmail</filename></title>
325 <term>DAEMON=yes|no</term>
327 <para>yes implies -bd</para>
331 <term>QUEUE=1h</term>
333 <para>given to sendmail as -q$QUEUE
334 -q option is not given to sendmail if /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
335 exists and QUEUE is empty or undefined.</para></listitem>
341 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/i18n</filename></title>
343 <member>LANG= can be any two letter ISO language code</member>
345 LC_ALL= is the setting of the localedata configuration (eg fr_CA)</member>
347 LINGUAS= can be a : separated list of language codes</member>
349 SYSTERM= use to set default TERM environment variable</member>
352 The above three variables are used in rc.sysinit.</para>
355 <term>SYSFONT= any font that is legal when used as</term>
357 <para> /usr/sbin/setfont $SYSFONT ...
358 (See kbd package for sysfont command)
362 <term>UNIMAP= any unicode font that is legal fodder for</term>
364 <para>/usr/sbin/setfont $SYSFONT-u $UNIMAP</para>
369 The above is used by the /sbin/setsysfont command (which is run
370 by rc.sysinit at boot time).
375 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/\<service\></filename></title>
377 The following are used when starting service.
381 <term>SERVICE_LIMITS="-u unlimited -c 0"</term>
384 System limits for this service.
389 <term>SERVICE_CPUSET="name"</term>
392 CPUSET to run this service in.
397 <term>SERVICE_UMASK="022"</term>
400 File creation mask for this service.
405 <term>SERVICE_RUN_NICE_LEVEL="0"</term>
408 Scheduling priority for this service.
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