3 <refname>/etc/sysconfig/</refname>
4 <refpurpose>Basic system settings</refpurpose>
7 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/clock</filename></title>
9 <title>Deprecated values from earlier releases:</title>
12 <term>CLOCKMODE=GMT</term>
13 <listitem><para>indicates that the clock is set to UTC</para></listitem>
16 <term>CLOCKMODE=ARC</term>
17 <listitem><para>on alpha only indicates the ARC console's
18 42-year time offset is in effect</para>
24 <title>Currently correct values:</title>
28 <listitem><para>indicates that the clock is set to UTC; anything
29 else indicates that it is set to local time</para>
34 <listitem><para>on alpha only indicates the ARC console's
35 42-year time offset is in effect; otherwise the normal
36 Unix epoch is assumed</para>
43 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename></title>
46 <term>KEYTABLE=<keytable file></term>
47 <listitem><para>for example:
48 KEYTABLE="/usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.map"</para>
55 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/mouse</filename></title>
58 <term>MOUSETYPE=microsoft|mouseman|mousesystems|ps/2|msbm|logibm|atibm|
59 logitech|mmseries|mmhittab</term>
60 <listitem><para> </para>
64 <term>XEMU3=yes|no</term>
65 <listitem><para>(emulate three buttons with two buttons whenever
66 necessary, most notably in X)</para>
70 <para>In addition, /dev/mouse points to the mouse device.</para>
73 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/network</filename></title>
75 <varlistentry><term>NETWORKING=yes|no</term>
76 <listitem><para>IPV6NETWORKING=yes|no</para>
79 <varlistentry><term>HOSTNAME=$<fqdn by default, but whatever hostname you want></term>
80 <listitem><note><para> for compatibility with some old software people might
81 install (like trn), the /etc/HOSTNAME file should contain the
82 same value as here.</para></note>
85 <varlistentry><term>FORWARD_IPV4=yes|no</term>
86 <listitem><para>(The current Red Hat Linux installation
87 sets this to no by default for RFC compliance, but if
88 FORWARD_IPV4 is not set at all, forwarding is *enabled*
89 for compatibility with the configuration files used on
90 Red Hat Linux versions 4.2 and earlier.)</para>
93 <varlistentry><term>IGNORE_ICMP_BCAST_IPV4=yes|no</term>
94 <listitem><para>(Please note that if you accept ICMP echo
95 requests with a broadcast/multicast destination address your network
96 may be used as an exploder for denial of service packet flooding attacks
97 to other hosts.</para>
101 <term>SPOOFING_IPV4=yes|no</term>
103 <para>(anti spoofing protection)</para></listitem>
107 <term>GATEWAY=<gateway IP></term>
116 <term>GATEWAYDEV=<gateway device></term>
124 <term>NISDOMAIN=<nis domain name></term>
131 <term>IPX=yes|no</term>
139 <term>IPXAUTOPRIMARY=on|off</term>
142 (note, that MUST be on|off, not yes|no)</para>
147 <term>IPXAUTOFRAME=on|off</term>
150 (again, not yes|no)</para>
155 <term>IPXINTERNALNETNUM=<netnum></term>
163 <term>IPXINTERNALNODENUM=<nodenum></term>
169 <para>All the IPX stuff is optional, and should default to off.</para>
173 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/static-nat</filename></title>
175 Configuration file for static Network Address Translation (NAT).
176 Contains lines of the form:</para>
178 <literal><address> via <addressreal></literal></para>
180 NAT will translate address <address> to <addressreal>.</para>
183 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/static-routes</filename></title>
184 <para>Contains lines of the form:</para>
185 <para><literal><device> to [type] <network>/<prefix> via <gateway></literal></para>
186 <para><device> may be a device name to have the route brought up and
187 down with the device, or "none" if the route is not to be bound to any specific
188 device. [type] is optional. RH style isn't supported !</para>
189 <para>Also you can set few options after "<gateway>":</para>
190 <simplelist columns=1>
191 <member>tos <tos></member>
192 <member>metric <number></member>
193 <member>table <table></member>
194 <member>src <address></member>
195 <member>realm <realmid></member>
196 <member>mtu <mtu> or mtu lock <mtu></member>
197 <member>window <number></member>
198 <member>rtt <number></member>
199 <member>nexthop <nexthop></member>
200 <member>scope <scope></member>
201 <member>protocol <rtproto></member>
202 <member>onlink</member>
203 <member>equalize</member>
206 <para>For more informations see iproute2 documentation .</para>
210 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/routed</filename></title>
212 <member>SILENT=yes|no</member>
213 <member>EXPORT_GATEWAY=yes|no</member>
218 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia</filename></title>
220 <member>PCMCIA=yes|no</member>
221 <member>PCIC=i82365|tcic</member>
222 <member>PCIC_OPTS=<socket driver (i82365 or tcic) timing parameters></member>
223 <member>CORE_OPTS=<pcmcia_core options></member>
224 <member>CARDMGR_OPTS=<cardmgr options></member>
229 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/amd</filename></title>
231 <varlistentry><term>ADIR=/.automount</term>
232 <listitem><para>(normally never changed)</para></listitem>
234 <varlistentry><term>MOUNTPTS='/net /etc/amd.conf'</term>
235 <listitem><para>(standard automount stuff)</para></listitem>
237 <varlistentry><term>AMDOPTS=</term>
238 <listitem><para>(extra options for AMD)</para></listitem>
244 <title><filename moreinfo="None">/etc/sysconfig/tape</filename></title>
246 <varlistentry><term>DEV=/dev/nst0</term>
249 Tape device. Use the non-rewinding one for these scripts.</para>
251 For SCSI tapes this is /dev/nst#, where # is the number of the
252 tape drive you want to use. If you only have one then use
255 For IDE tapes you use /dev/ht#, where # is the number of the tape
256 drive you want to use (usually ht0).</para>
258 For floppy tape drives use /dev/ftape.</para>
262 <varlistentry><term>ADMIN=root</term>
263 <listitem><para>Person to mail to if the backup fails for any reason</para>
271 Time to sleep between tape operations. Some drives need a bit
272 more than others, but 5 seems to work for 8mm, 4mm, and DLT</para>
277 <term>BLOCKSIZE=32768</term>
280 This worked fine for 8mm, then 4mm, and now DLT. An optimal
281 setting is probably however much data your drive writes at one
287 <term>SHORTDATE=$(date +%y:%m:%d:%H:%M)</term>
290 A short date string, used in backup log filenames.</para>
296 <term>DAY=$(date +log-%y:%m:%d)</term>
299 This is used for the log file directory.</para>
304 <term>DATE=$(date)</term>
307 Regular date string, used in log files.</para>
312 <term>LOGROOT=/var/log/backup</term>
315 Root of the logging directory</para>
320 <term>LIST=$LOGROOT/incremental-list</term>
323 This is the file name the incremental backup will use to store
324 the incremental list. It will be $LIST-{some number}.
330 <term>DOTCOUNT=$LOGROOT/.count</term>
333 For counting as you go to know which incremental list to use
340 <term>COUNTER=$LOGROOT/counter-file</term>
343 For rewinding when done...might not use.
349 <term>BACKUPTAB=/etc/backuptab</term>
352 The file in which we keep our list of backup(s) we want to make.
360 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/sendmail</filename></title>
363 <term>DAEMON=yes|no</term>
365 <para>yes implies -bd</para>
369 <term>QUEUE=1h</term>
371 <para>given to sendmail as -q$QUEUE
372 -q option is not given to sendmail if /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
373 exists and QUEUE is empty or undefined.</para></listitem>
379 <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/i18n</filename></title>
381 <member>LANG= can be any two letter ISO language code</member>
383 LC_ALL= is the setting of the localedata configuration (eg fr_CA)</member>
385 LINGUAS= can be a : separated list of language codes</member>
387 SYSTERM= use to set default TERM environment variable</member>
390 The above three variables are used in rc.sysinit.</para>
393 <term>SYSFONT= any font that is legal when used as</term>
395 <para> /usr/sbin/setfont $SYSFONT ...
396 (See kbd package for sysfont command)
400 <term>UNIMAP= any unicode font that is legal fodder for</term>
402 <para>/usr/sbin/setfont $SYSFONT-u $UNIMAP</para>
407 The above is used by the /sbin/setsysfont command (which is run
408 by rc.sysinit at boot time).
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