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diff --git a/doc/sysconfig.txt b/doc/sysconfig.txt index b16338a9..908f6893 100644 --- a/doc/sysconfig.txt +++ b/doc/sysconfig.txt @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ Generic options: filesystems and "confirm" can be used to enable interactive startup questions. + Mageia specific values: + + BRLTTY=yes|no + Set to 'no' to disable automatic startup of brltty if it is present + obsoleted values from earlier releases: MAGIC_SYSRQ=yes|no @@ -120,6 +125,11 @@ Generic options: on SPARC only, sun means a sun keyboard is attached on /dev/kbd, pc means a PS/2 keyboard is on ps/2 port. +/etc/sysconfig/system: + + SECURE_TMP=yes|no + Set to 'yes' to have TMPDIR and TMP set to a secure temporary directory + /etc/sysconfig/mouse: MOUSETYPE=microsoft|mouseman|mousesystems|ps/2|msbm|logibm|atibm| @@ -136,13 +146,24 @@ Generic options: GATEWAY=<gateway IP> GATEWAYDEV=<gateway device to use, when multiple devices have GATEWAY=> (e.g. eth0) NISDOMAIN=<nis domain name> + IFPLUGD_ARGS="<args to pass to ifplugd>" default to "-w -b" NOZEROCONF= Set this to not set a route for dynamic link-local addresses. NETWORKDELAY=<delay in seconds> Delay in seconds after all network interfaces are initialized. Useful if network has spanning tree running and must wait for STP convergence. - Default: 0 (no delay) + Default: 20 + + DEFAULT_LINK_DETECTION_DELAY=<time in seconds> + The default value used for link detection delay if the interface + configuration file does not specify it. After this time an interface with + missing link beat is considered to be unplugged. + Default: 2 + + MIN_LINK_DETECTION_DELAY=<delay in seconds> + Force minimum link detection delay on all interfaces. + Default: 0 WAIT_UNTIL_REACHABLE=<IP address|DNS name> Network initscript will wait until specified target is reachable. @@ -367,6 +388,44 @@ Generic options: -q option is not given to sendmail if /etc/sysconfig/sendmail exists and QUEUE is empty or undefined. +/etc/locale.conf + + A configutration file for locale settings. See locale.conf(5) for + more details. + + LANG= set locale for all categories, can be any two letter ISO + language code + LC_CTYPE= locale data configuration for classification and conversion + of characters + LC_COLLATE= locale data configuration for collation (sort order) of + strings + LC_MESSAGES= locale data configuration for translation of messages + LC_NUMERIC= locale data configuration for non-monetary numeric data + LC_MONETARY= locale data configuration for monetary data + LC_TIME= locale data configuration for date and time + LC_ALL= locale data configuration overriding all of the above + LANGUAGE= can be a : separated list of ISO language codes + LINGUAS= can be a ' ' separated list of ISO language codes + + The above variables are used in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. + + If ~/.i18n exists, it is used in addition to /etc/locale.conf and + for per-user customization of the locales. + +/etc/vconsole.conf: + + SYSFONT= Console font. Fonts are found in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts. + + UNIMAP= Unicode font map. Most fonts have these built-in. Font maps + can be found in /usr/lib/kbd/unimaps. These are applied via setfont's + -u option. + + SYSFONTACM= Console map. These are applied via setfont's -m option, + and are found in /usr/lib/kbd/consoletrans. + + The above are used to set up the keyboard at boot time. For more + information, see vconsole.conf(5). + Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ======================================== @@ -429,18 +488,8 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ Most important for PPP. Only used in front ends. DEVICE=<name of physical device (except dynamically-allocated PPP devices where it is the "logical name")> - IPADDRn= - PREFIXn= - Network prefix. It is used for all configurations except aliases - and ippp devices. It takes precedence over NETMASK when both - PREFIX and NETMASK are set. - NETMASKn= - Subnet mask; just useful for aliases and ippp devices. For all other - configurations, use PREFIX instead. - - The "n" is expected to be consecutive positive integers starting from 0. - It can be omitted if there is only one address being configured. - + IPADDR= + NETMASK= GATEWAY= METRIC= Metric for the default route using GATEWAY @@ -466,6 +515,11 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ configured IP address. SRCADDR= use the specified source address for outgoing packets + MII_NOT_SUPPORTED= + if set don't try to use ifstatus to detect if the link is up. + METRIC= + if set, assign the route associated with this interface to this + metric using ifmetric. HWADDR= ethernet hardware address for this device MACADDR= @@ -543,6 +597,48 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ where $IPV6_AUTOCONF is set to `yes`. Defaults to `yes`, set to `no` if you want to manage these yourself. + You can specify which dhcp client to use with the DHCP_CLIENT, if + the DHCP_CLIENT is not specified we trying to launch in order : + /sbin/dhclient + /sbin/dhcpcd + /sbin/pump + /sbin/dhcpxd + if you have a preferred client define the DHCP_CLIENT variable. + When you use dhclient (which it is the default on a Mandrake-Linux + system) you can specify a timeout of waiting the answer from server, + the option is called DHCP_TIMEOUT the default is 60 sec. + + Mageia specific items for DHCP clients: + DHCP_HOSTNAME= + This option specifies the hostname to request to the DHCP server. + The name may or may not be qualified with the local domain name. + NEEDHOSTNAME=yes|no + If set to 'yes', set hostname to the host-name option supplied + by the DHCP server. + PEERDNS=yes|no + If set to 'no', do not modify /etc/resolv.conf + PEERGATEWAY=yes|no + If set to 'no', do not add the gateway provided by DHCP server + in the routing table (does not work with dhcpxd). + PEERYP=yes|no + If set to 'yes', update /etc/yp.conf (specific to dhcpcd) + PEERNTPD=yes|no + If set to 'yes', update /etc/ntp.conf (specific to dhcpcd) + DOMAINNAME= + If specified and DHCP_HOSTNAME is not empty, strip DOMAINNAME + value in DHCP_HOSTNAME. + If empty and dhcpd is used, set the host domainname to the + domainname option supplied by DHCP server. + DHCP_TIMEOUT= + If not empty, this option specifies (in seconds) for how long + the DHCP client will try to get an IP address after its initial request + (specific to dhclient and dhcpcd, default is 60 seconds) + + Mageia items: + LINK_DETECTION_DELAY=<time in seconds> + Delay after which a lack of link beat will be considered to + result from an unplugged interface, rather than just down + Base items being deprecated: NETWORK=<will be calculated automatically with ipcalc> BROADCAST=<will be calculated automatically with ipcalc> @@ -644,11 +740,11 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ IPv6-only option to enable DHCPv6 client: DHCPV6C=yes|no - This will enable the DHCPv6 features of dhclient to be run for the interface. - See man dhclient(8) and dhclient.conf(5). + This will enable the DHCPv6 client, dhcp6c, to be run for the interface. + See man dhcp6c(8) and dhcp6c.conf(5). DHCPV6C_OPTIONS=... This will pass given arguments to the DHCPv6 client. For example, - "-S" option will request network information (e.g., DNS addresses) + "-I" option will request network information (e.g., DNS addresses) only, not IPv6 addresses. Ethernet-only items: @@ -690,7 +786,8 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ Ethernet 802.1q VLAN items: DEVICE=eth0.42 - Initscripts use the device name for VLAN devices. + Initscripts use DEV_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD naming mode for VLAN + devices. Example: eth0.42 for vlan 42 on device eth0. Valid VLAN ID range is 0-4095. Most ethernet switches reserve VLAN ID 1 to be used as management VLAN; starting from VLAN @@ -951,6 +1048,12 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ Bring up aliases for a device. +/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdhcpc-done + + Called by dhcpcd once dhcp configuration is complete; sets + up /etc/resolv.conf from the version dhcpcd dropped in + /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf + /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-<interface-name> Contains lines that specify additional routes that should be added when the @@ -976,8 +1079,8 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ gateway, there is no need to specify a device. Note: The ifup-routes script also supports an older syntax designed to be - used directly as an argument to "/sbin/ip route add". - If no "ADDRESSn" lines are found the following will still + used directly as an argument to "/sbin/ip route add". This syntax is + deprecated, but if no "ADDRESSn" lines are found the following will still work: 192.168.2.0/24 dev ppp0 |