======================= Generic options: /etc/sysconfig/* CGROUP_DAEMON= List of control groups that the daemon will be run in. For example, CGROUP_DAEMON="cpu:daemons cpuacct:/" will run it in the daemons group for the CPU controller, and the '/' group for the CPU accounting controller. /etc/sysconfig/authconfig used by authconfig to store information about the system's user information and authentication setup; changes made to this file have no effect until the next time authconfig is run USEHESIOD=no Whether or not the hesiod naming service is in use. If not set, authconfig examines the passwd setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf. USELDAP=no Whether or not LDAP is used as a naming service. If not set, authconfig examines the passwd setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf. USENIS=no Whether or not NIS is in use. If not set, authconfig examines the passwd setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf. USEKERBEROS=no Whether or not Kerberos is in use. If not set, authconfig examines the settings in /etc/pam.d/system-auth. USELDAPAUTH=no Whether or not LDAP is being used for authentication. If not set, authconfig examines the settings in /etc/pam.d/system-auth. Note that this option is separate from USELDAP, and that neither implies the other. USEMD5=no Whether or not MD5-based hashing should be used when setting passwords. If not set, authconfig examines the settings in /etc/pam.d/system-auth. This option affects authentication using both local files and LDAP. USESHADOW=no Whether or not shadow passwords are in use. If not set, authconfig checks for the existence of /etc/shadow. USESMBAUTH=no Whether or not SMB authentication is in use. If not set, authconfig examines the settings in /etc/pam.d/system-auth. /etc/sysconfig/autofsck does not normally exist; if it does, it can influence a choice whether or not to fsck after a crash AUTOFSCK_DEF_CHECK=no If the user does not respond, choose whether or not to fsck AUTOFSCK_SINGLEUSER= If this is set, drop to single user mode before fsck. /etc/sysconfig/clock: Current releases use the third parameter in the /etc/adjtime file (either 'UTC' or 'LOCAL') to determine whether the hwclock is in UTC or localtime. ZONE="filename" indicates the zonefile under /usr/share/zoneinfo that /etc/localtime is a copy of, for example: ZONE="US/Eastern" deprecated values from earlier releases: CLOCKMODE=GMT indicates that the clock is set to UTC CLOCKMODE=ARC on alpha only indicates the ARC console's 42-year time offset is in effect UTC=true,yes Indicates that the hardware clock is set to UTC. UTC=no,false Indicates that the hardware clock is set to Local Time. ARC=true on alpha only indicates the ARC console's 42-year time offset is in effect; otherwise the normal Unix epoch is assumed. SRM=true on alpha only indicates the SRM 1900 epoch is in effect; otherwise the normal Unix epoch is assumed. /etc/sysconfig/desktop: DESKTOP=GNOME|KDE This determines the default desktop for new users. DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME|KDE|KDM|XDM This determines display manager started by /etc/X11/prefdm, independent of the desktop. /etc/sysconfig/init: BOOTUP= BOOTUP=graphical means use X Windows graphical boot up BOOTUP=color means colorized text mode boot display. BOOTUP=verbose means old style display Anything else means simplified display, but without color or ANSI-formatting LOGLEVEL= Sets the initial console logging level for the kernel. The default is 7. 8 means everything (including debugging); 1 means nothing except kernel panics. syslogd will override this once it starts. RES_COL= Column of the screen to start status labels at. Defaults to 60 MOVE_TO_COL= A command to move the cursor to $RES_COL. Defaults to nasty ANSI sequences output by echo -e. SETCOLOR_SUCCESS= A command to set the color to a color indicating success. Defaults to nasty ANSI sequences output by echo -e setting the color to green. SETCOLOR_FAILURE= A command to set the color to a color indicating failure. Defaults to nasty ANSI sequences output by echo -e setting the color to red. SETCOLOR_WARNING= A command to set the color to a color indicating warning. Defaults to nasty ANSI sequences output by echo -e setting the color to yellow. SETCOLOR_NORMAL= A command to set the color to 'normal'. Defaults to nasty ANSI sequences output by echo -e. PROMPT=yes|no Set to 'yes' to enable the key check for interactive mode as well as asking if a filesystem check should be done. Default is 'no' and the kernel command line option "forcefsck" can be used to check the filesystems and "confirm" can be used to enable interactive startup questions. AUTOSWAP=yes|no Set to 'yes' to enable automatic swapon of all partitions with the proper swap magic. This allows setting up swap without editing /etc/fstab. REWRITEISSUE=rewrite|remove REWRITEISSUENET=rewrite|remove Force /etc/issue or /etc/issue.net to be rewritten or removed at boot. Default depends on security level. To leave it alone specify 'remove' and create /etc/security/msec/issue and/or /etc/security/msec/issue.net 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 Setting this to 'no' used to disable the magic sysrq key and Stop-A (break on serial console) on SPARC. This setting has been moved into kernel.sysrq and kernel.stop-a settings respectively in /etc/sysctl.conf. Setting either of them there to 0 disables it, setting it to 1 enables it. STOP_A=yes|no Setting this to 'no' used to disable the Stop-A (break on serial console) key on SPARC. This setting has been moved into kernel.stop-a setting in /etc/sysctl.conf. Setting it there to 0 disables it, setting it to 1 enables it. The setting should be present on SPARC only. /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: KEYTABLE= for example: KEYTABLE="/usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.map" If you dump a keymap (using 'dumpkeys') to /etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap it will be loaded on bootup before filesystems are mounted/checked. This could be useful if you need to emergency type the root password. This has to be a dumped keymap, as opposed to copying the shipped keymap files, as the shipped files include other maps from the /usr/lib/kbd/keytables directory. KEYBOARDTYPE=sun|pc 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: CLEAN_TMP=[number] If you want to clean up your /tmp dir specify a number how long it will take. SECURE_TMP=yes|no Set to 'yes' to have TMPDIR and TMP set to a secure temporary directory LIBSAFE=yes|no Set to 'yes' to run servers under libsafe (broken?) /etc/sysconfig/mouse: 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) DEVICE= (the device of the mouse) In addition, /dev/mouse points to the mouse device. /etc/sysconfig/network: NETWORKING=yes|no HOSTNAME= Note that this can be overriden by /etc/hostname. GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV= (e.g. eth0) NISDOMAIN= IPX=yes|no IPXAUTOPRIMARY=on|off (note, that MUST be on|off, not yes|no) IPXAUTOFRAME=on|off (again, not yes|no) IPXINTERNALNETNUM= IPXINTERNALNODENUM= IFPLUGD_ARGS="" default to "-w -b" NOZEROCONF= Set this to not set a route for dynamic link-local addresses. All the IPX stuff is optional, and should default to off. NETWORKDELAY= Delay in seconds after all network interfaces are initialized. Useful if network has spanning tree running and must wait for STP convergence. Default: 20 DEFAULT_LINK_DETECTION_DELAY=