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diff --git a/rc.conf.5.txt b/rc.conf.5.txt index d04f7ff..d27d542 100644 --- a/rc.conf.5.txt +++ b/rc.conf.5.txt @@ -16,62 +16,76 @@ Description ----------- The */etc/rc.conf* file is the system configuration file for Arch-specific settings. The format is bash. It contains several commonly-edited settings such -as timezone; keymap; kernel modules; daemons to load at start-up; etc. It's +as timezone; keymap; kernel modules; daemons to load at start-up; etc. It is split up in a few sections to categorize configuration settings: localization, hardware, networking and daemons. Localization[[L]] ----------------- *TIMEZONE*:: - Specifies your time zone. Possible time zones are the relative path to a zoneinfo file starting + Specifies the timezone. The setting takes effect on boot by ensuring that /etc/localtime is a symlink + to the correct zoneinfo file. Possible timezones are the relative path to a zoneinfo file starting from the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo. For example, a German timezone would be Europe/Berlin, which refers to the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin. - Note: if unset, the value in /etc/localtime is used unchanged - Default: "Canada/Pacific" + + Note: if empty, /etc/localtime is not changed. This is useful if /etc/localtime is maintained manually + or by a third-party tool; or if there is no reason to change it from what was set during install. + + Default: empty *HARDWARECLOCK*:: How to interpret/update the hardware clock. (used by hwclock) Options: - - empty: fall back to the value in /var/lib/hwclock/adjfile, which defaults to UTC. (recommended) + - empty: fall back to the value in /var/lib/hwclock/adjfile, which defaults to UTC. This is recommended + as other users of hwclock might change adjfile and hence cause rc.conf and adjfile to be out of sync. - "UTC": most robust, allows operating systems to abstract local time and ease DST. - "localtime": apply timezone (and DST) in hardwareclock: discouraged. - Choose this if you dualboot with an OS which cannot handle UTC BIOS times correctly, like Windows. + Choose this if you dualboot with an OS which cannot handle UTC BIOS times correctly, like Windows (note + that recent Windows'es can use UTC, which is preferable). - any other value will result in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization) + Default: empty *KEYMAP*:: Defines the keymap to load with the loadkeys program on bootup. Possible keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps. Please note that this setting is only valid for your TTYs, not any graphical window managers or X. + KEYMAP in /etc/vconsole.conf takes precedence. + Defalut: empty *CONSOLEFONT*:: Defines the console font to load with the setfont program on bootup. - Possible fonts are found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts. (only needed for non-US) + Possible fonts are found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US). + FONT in /etc/vconsole.conf takes precedence. + Default: empty *CONSOLEMAP*:: - Defines the console map to load with the setfont program on bootup. - Possible maps are found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans. - Set this to a map suitable for the appropriate locale (8859-1 for Latin1, for example) - if you're using an UTF-8 locale and use programs that generate 8-bit output. - If you're using X11 for everyday work, don't bother, - as it only affects the output of Linux console applications. + Defines the console map to load with the setfont program on bootup. Possible maps are found in + /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans. Set this to a map suitable for the appropriate locale (8859-1 for Latin1, + for example) if you're using an UTF-8 locale and use programs that generate 8-bit output. If you're + using X11 for everyday work, don't bother, as it only affects the output of Linux console applications. + FONT_MAP in /etc/vconsole.conf takes precedence. + Default: empty *LOCALE*:: This sets your system language, which will be used by all i18n-friendly applications and utilities. - See `locale -a` (or locale.gen) for available options. LANG in /etc/locale.conf takes precedence. + See `locale -a` (or locale.gen) for available options. LANG in /etc/locale.conf takes precedence. If unset, it falls back to the C locale. + Default: empty *DAEMON_LOCALE*:: If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon startup and during the boot process. If set to 'no', the C locale is used. + Default: "no" *USECOLOR*:: - use ANSI color sequences in startup messages + Use ANSI color sequences in startup messages + Default: "yes" Hardware[[H]] @@ -79,77 +93,102 @@ Hardware[[H]] *MODULES*:: Modules to load at boot-up. To blacklist modules, see "man modprobe.conf". + Default: (). *UDEV_TIMEOUT*:: Udev settle timeout. + Default: 30 *USEDMRAID*:: Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup. + Default: "no" *USEBTRFS*:: Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup. + Default: "no" *USELVM*:: Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM. + Default: "no" Networking[[N]] --------------- *HOSTNAME*:: - Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts. + Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts. The contents of + /etc/hostname (if not empty) takes precedence. + Default: "myhost" The following settings help you setting up a wired network. *interface*:: - Name of device. + Name of device. Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces. + Default: empty + Required for manual configuration as well as DHCP. - Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces. *address*:: IP address. + Default: empty + Required for manual configuration, empty for DHCP. *netmask*:: Subnet mask. + Default: empty (which means 255.255.255.0) + Optional for manual configuration, ignored for DHCP. *broadcast*:: Broadcast address. + Default: empty + Optional for manual configuration, ignored for DHCP. *gateway*:: Default route. + Default: empty + Required for manual configuration, ignored for DHCP. *Static IP example*:: + interface=eth0 + address=192.168.0.2 + netmask=255.255.255.0 + broadcast=192.168.0.255 + gateway=192.168.0.1 *DHCP example*:: + interface=eth0 + address= + netmask= + gateway= The following options might be needed for advanced use-cases. *NETWORK_PERSIST*:: - Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown. - This is required if your root device is on NFS. + Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown. This is required if your root device is on NFS. + Default: "no" *NETWORKS*:: @@ -180,4 +219,4 @@ Daemons[[D]] Authors ------- - Written by Tom Gundersen, Dieter Plaetinck and others. + Written by Dieter Plaetinck, Tom Gundersen and others. |