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NAME

       systemconfig.conf - System Configurator configuration file

DESCRIPTION

       This file, by default located in /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf is
       used by the systemconfigurator program to determine what configuration
       information should be applied to your system.

       The file looks something like the following:

         # This is a comment
         [NETWORK]
         GATEWAY = 192.168.42.1
         DNS1 = 192.168.42.254

         [INTERFACE0]
         DEVICE = eth0
         TYPE = dhcp

         [INTERFACE1]
         DEVICE = eth1
         IPADDR = 192.168.64.5
         NETMASK = 255.255.255.0
         TYPE = static

       The configuration is divided into blocks of two types:      Global
       blocks (like [NETWORK] above), and      Instance blocks (like
       [INTERFACE0] above).

       Each instance block can have as many entries as desired.  The number
       following the type must be unique for each new block.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available within the config file

[NETWORK]

       The following options exist inside of the NETWORK block:

       GATEWAY
           The default network gateway for the machine.  This should be
           specified in dotted decimal notation (i.e. 192.168.42.1).  On a
           multiple interface machine, GATEWAY will be attached to whatever
           DEVICE was specified for INTERFACE0

       HOSTNAME
           The hostname for the machine.  This should be the single word short
           hostname, not the fully qualified hostname.

       SHORTHOSTNAME
           Whether or not to use the short hostname when setting up host names
           (only affects some network modules).  The value can be YES or NO,
           and defaults to NO (i.e. use fully qualified name as host name) if
           not specified.

       DOMAINNAME
           The domainname of the machine.  This is an optional parameter.

       SEARCH
           The search list for resolv.conf.  This should be a string which
           looks just as the search string in resolv.conf (i.e.
           "sub.domain1.com sub2.domain2.com domain1.com").

       DNS1, DNS2, DNS3
           You can specify up to three Domain Name Servers in the
           configuration file.  They should be the dotted decimal ip address
           of the domain name servers you wish to use.

           (Note: if you are using DHCP to configure your machines, the
           nameservers will probably be specified by your DHCP server, hence
           these variables will have no effect.)

[INTERFACE\d+]

       The following directives may exist for an INTERFACE\d+ block.  You may
       have as many INTERFACE blocks as you like, as long as each one has a
       separate numeral identifier.  (i.e. INTERFACE0, INTERFACE1, INTERFACE2
       ...).

       If you wish to specify a GATEWAY you must specify INTERFACE0.
       Otherwise there is no requirement on specifying specific INTERFACE
       blocks.

       DEVICE
           The network device this interface corresponds to.  Should be of the
           format eth0, tr0, or whatever the device name of your network
           interface happens to be.

       TYPE
           The protocol to use when booting.  There are three valid values for
           type: static, bootp, and dhcp.  Static indicates that a static ip
           will be provided, while bootp and dhcp specify the boot protocol to
           use for dynamic address configuration.

       IPADDR
           The static IP address to be assigned to the host.

       NETMASK
           The subnet mask to be used for the host.

[HARDWARE]

       The following variables can be assigned in the [HARDWARE] section.

       ORDER
           The format of the ORDER stanza is a list of module names (for
           example):

             [HARDWARE]
             ORDER = e1000 eepro100 pcnet32

           If ORDER is specified, the hardware list detected on the client
           will be modified to ensure the listed modules are listed first, and
           in the order specified.  This will override the normal ordering of
           modules (and hence aliases for eth0...ethN) which is based on the
           device’s location on the pcbus.

           Note: be careful when setting this, as some users have noticed that
           not all modules can be loaded in any order.

[BOOT]

       The following variables can be assigned in the [BOOT] section.

       PREFERED
           This specifies the prefered boot module (i.e. Boot::Lilo or
           Boot::Grub).  This can be specified in an environment where
           multiple modules may be functional, and the default order System
           Configurator tries them is picks one other than what the
           administrator desires.

       ROOTDEV
           The device name that will be mounted as the root file system.
           Should be specified in the format "/dev/hda#" or "/dev/sda#".

       BOOTDEV
           This specifies which device is your boot device (generally /dev/hda
           or /dev/sda).  It is required by the boot loader to know where it
           should install itself.

       TIMEOUT
           How long the boot loader should wait before booting.  This value
           specifies the number of tenths of seconds to wait.  For instance,
           TIMEOUT = 50 specifies that the boot loader pause for 5 seconds
           before starting the boot process.

       DEFAULTBOOT
           The name of kernel to boot by default.

       APPEND
           Any kernel parameters you want appended to all kernels specified in
           the KERNEL## blocks.

       VGA Set the VGA mode for the boot process.  This defaults to ’normal’.
           (Note: Currently only works for lilo)

       EXTRAS
           This allows you to set any additional line you wish in the global
           section of the bootloader conf.  (Note: Currently only works for
           lilo)

[KERNEL\d+]

       The following directives may exist for a KERNEL\d+ block.  You may have
       as many KERNEL blocks as you like, as long as each one has a separate
       numeral identifier.  (i.e. KERNEL0, KERNEL1, KERNEL2 ...).

       PATH
           The path to the kernel image.  Generally of the form
           /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-5.

       LABEL
           A name for the kernel.

       INITRD
           The initial ramdisk to be used by the kernel during boot.  This may
           be optional if your boot devices are supported without additional
           kernel modules.  If no initrd is specified, then systemconfigurator
           will attempt to create one if it is necessary.

       APPEND
           An arbitrary string to be appended to the kernel during boot.  This
           will often be used for things such as specifying single user mode,
           or specifying that cdrom devices should be utilized via the ide-
           scsi emulation layer.

       ROOTDEV
           The device (e.g. /dev/hda3) that will be used as the root file
           system for the kernel.  This will be inherited from the global
           option if not specified in the image.

       HOSTOS
           For virtual machine support often a two stage kernel loading is
           needed. HOSTOS allows to specify the first stage, in XEN this is
           called the domain 0 kernel.  An example of a XEN kernel
           configuration block:

               [KERNEL0]
                   PATH = /boot/xen.gz
                   LABEL = Xen
                   APPEND = dom0_mem=131072
                   HOSTOS = /boot/vmlinuz-dom0
                   INITRD = /boot/initrd.img-dom0

[TIME]

       System Configurator allows for the setting of time zones in a generic
       way.  By default this option is enabled, however no changes to the
       filesystem will be done unless valid time options are added to the
       stanza.  This will both create the right /etc/localtime file and set
       any configuration variables which are needed for normal operation.

       ZONE
           The time zone, in glibc format (e.g. America/New_York).

       UTC Whether the hardware clock is in UTC.  Defaults to true.

[USEREXIT\d+]

       System Configurator supports an arbitrary number of user exits.  Each
       user exit will be run in turn.  The user exits are the last things run
       by systemconfigurator, so it will have full access to the client
       operating system.  The first user exit to return a bad exit code will
       stop the processing of the rest of the user exits.

       Each user exit block takes two stanzas.

       CMD The command to be run (e.g. touch).  If the command is not found,
           or not executable, this user exit will be skipped.

       PARAMS
           Any parameters needed to be passed to the command.  Future versions
           may allow the passing of other variables that System Configurator
           has access to, but this is not yet supported.

AUTHORS

         Sean Dague <japh@us.ibm.com>
         Donghwa John Kim <johkim@us.ibm.com>
         Joe Greenseid <jgreenseid@users.sourceforge.net>

SEE ALSO

       systemconfigurator, AppConfig, perl

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