/etc/sysconfig/ Basic system settings KEYTABLE=<keytable file> for example: KEYTABLE="/usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.map" MOUSETYPE=microsoft|mouseman|mousesystems|ps/2|msbm|logibm|atibm| logitech|mmseries|mmhittab XEMU3=yes|no (emulate three buttons with two buttons whenever necessary, most notably in X) In addition, /dev/mouse points to the mouse device. NETWORKING=yes|no IPV6NETWORKING=yes|no HOSTNAME=$<whatever hostname you want> for compatibility with some old software people might install (like trn), the /etc/HOSTNAME file should contain the same value as here. IGNORE_ICMP_BCAST_IPV4=yes|no (Please note that if you accept ICMP echo requests with a broadcast/multicast destination address your network may be used as an exploder for denial of service packet flooding attacks to other hosts. SPOOFING_IPV4=yes|no (anti spoofing protection) GATEWAY=<gateway IP> GATEWAYDEV=<gateway device> (e.g. eth0) NISDOMAIN=<nis domain name> IPX=yes|no IPXAUTOPRIMARY=on|off (note, that MUST be on|off, not yes|no) IPXAUTOFRAME=on|off (again, not yes|no) IPXINTERNALNETNUM=<netnum> IPXINTERNALNODENUM=<nodenum> All the IPX stuff is optional, and should default to off. Configuration file for static Network Address Translation (NAT). Contains lines of the form: <address> via <addressreal> NAT will translate address <address> to <addressreal>. Contains lines of the form: <device> to [type] <network>/<prefix> via <gateway> <device> may be a device name to have the route brought up and down with the device, or "none" if the route is not to be bound to any specific device. [type] is optional. RH style isn't supported ! Also you can set few options after "<gateway>": tos <tos> metric <number> table <table> src <address> realm <realmid> mtu <mtu> or mtu lock <mtu> window <number> rtt <number> nexthop <nexthop> scope <scope> protocol <rtproto> onlink equalize For more informations see iproute2 documentation . Same as /etc/sysconfig/static-routes but for IPv6. SILENT=yes|no EXPORT_GATEWAY=yes|no PCMCIA=yes|no PCIC=i82365|tcic PCIC_OPTS=<socket driver (i82365 or tcic) timing parameters> CORE_OPTS=<pcmcia_core options> CARDMGR_OPTS=<cardmgr options> ADIR=/.automount (normally never changed) MOUNTPTS='/net /etc/amd.conf' (standard automount stuff) AMDOPTS= (extra options for AMD) DEV=/dev/nst0 Tape device. Use the non-rewinding one for these scripts. For SCSI tapes this is /dev/nst#, where # is the number of the tape drive you want to use. If you only have one then use nst0. For IDE tapes you use /dev/ht#, where # is the number of the tape drive you want to use (usually ht0). For floppy tape drives use /dev/ftape. ADMIN=root Person to mail to if the backup fails for any reason SLEEP=5 Time to sleep between tape operations. Some drives need a bit more than others, but 5 seems to work for 8mm, 4mm, and DLT BLOCKSIZE=32768 This worked fine for 8mm, then 4mm, and now DLT. An optimal setting is probably however much data your drive writes at one time. SHORTDATE=$(date +%y:%m:%d:%H:%M) A short date string, used in backup log filenames. DAY=$(date +log-%y:%m:%d) This is used for the log file directory. DATE=$(date) Regular date string, used in log files. LOGROOT=/var/log/backup Root of the logging directory LIST=$LOGROOT/incremental-list This is the file name the incremental backup will use to store the incremental list. It will be $LIST-{some number}. DOTCOUNT=$LOGROOT/.count For counting as you go to know which incremental list to use COUNTER=$LOGROOT/counter-file For rewinding when done...might not use. BACKUPTAB=/etc/backuptab The file in which we keep our list of backup(s) we want to make. DAEMON=yes|no yes implies -bd QUEUE=1h given to sendmail as -q$QUEUE -q option is not given to sendmail if /etc/sysconfig/sendmail exists and QUEUE is empty or undefined. LANG= can be any two letter ISO language code LC_ALL= is the setting of the localedata configuration (eg fr_CA) LINGUAS= can be a : separated list of language codes SYSTERM= use to set default TERM environment variable The above three variables are used in rc.sysinit. SYSFONT= any font that is legal when used as /usr/sbin/setfont $SYSFONT ... (See kbd package for sysfont command) UNIMAP= any unicode font that is legal fodder for /usr/sbin/setfont $SYSFONT-u $UNIMAP The above is used by the /sbin/setsysfont command (which is run by rc.sysinit at boot time). The following are used when starting service. SERVICE_LIMITS="-u unlimited -c 0" System limits for this service. SERVICE_CPUSET="name" CPUSET to run this service in. SERVICE_UMASK="022" File creation mask for this service. SERVICE_RUN_NICE_LEVEL="0" Scheduling priority for this service.