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1 files changed, 113 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/sysconfig.txt b/sysconfig.txt index bc7bfa37..d19be418 100644 --- a/sysconfig.txt +++ b/sysconfig.txt @@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ Generic options: 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=<some bootup mode> @@ -121,6 +129,18 @@ Generic options: filesystems and "confirm" can be used to enable interactive startup questions. + Mageia specific values: + + 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 + + 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 @@ -154,6 +174,18 @@ 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: + + 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| @@ -175,6 +207,7 @@ Generic options: IPXAUTOFRAME=on|off (again, not yes|no) IPXINTERNALNETNUM=<netnum> IPXINTERNALNODENUM=<nodenum> + IFPLUGD_ARGS="<args to pass to ifplugd>" default to "-w -b" NOZEROCONF= Set this to not set a route for dynamic link-local addresses. @@ -183,8 +216,20 @@ Generic options: 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 + + CRDA_DOMAIN=<domain> + Default wireless regulatory domain (man 8 crda). IPV6FORWARDING=yes|no Enable or disable global forwarding of incoming IPv6 packets @@ -422,14 +467,14 @@ Generic options: /etc/vconsole.conf: - SYSFONT= Console font. Fonts are found in /lib/kbd/consolefonts. + 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 /lib/kbd/unimaps. These are applied via setfont's + 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 /lib/kbd/consoletrans. + 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). @@ -497,18 +542,8 @@ 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 @@ -534,6 +569,11 @@ 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= @@ -586,6 +626,50 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ For dynamic addressing (BOOTPROTO=dhcp) only DEVICE needs to be set; all the rest will be determined by the boot protocol. + 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 + CRDA_DOMAIN=<domain> + Wireless regulatory domain for this connection (man 8 crda). + Base items being deprecated: NETWORK=<will be calculated automatically with ipcalc> BROADCAST=<will be calculated automatically with ipcalc> @@ -683,11 +767,11 @@ 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: @@ -726,7 +810,8 @@ 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 @@ -993,6 +1078,12 @@ 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 @@ -1018,8 +1109,8 @@ 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 |