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diff --git a/rc.conf.5.txt b/rc.conf.5.txt index 0e52f30..25b0f6e 100644 --- a/rc.conf.5.txt +++ b/rc.conf.5.txt @@ -16,21 +16,21 @@ 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 is +as time zone, 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. +hardware, networking, and daemons. LOCALIZATION[[L]] ----------------- *TIMEZONE=* -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, +Specifies the time zone. The setting takes effect on boot by ensuring that /etc/localtime is a symlink +to the correct zoneinfo file. Possible time zones are the relative path to a zoneinfo file starting +from the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo. For example, a German time zone would be Europe/Berlin, which refers to the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin. -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. +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 @@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ Options: - empty: fall back to the value in /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime, which defaults to UTC. This is recommended as other users of hwclock might change the adjtime file and hence cause rc.conf and adjtime 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 (note - that recent Windows'es can use UTC, which is preferable). + - "localtime": apply time zone (and DST) in hardwareclock: discouraged. + Choose this if you dual-boot with an OS which cannot handle UTC BIOS times correctly, like Windows (note + that recent Windows versions can use UTC, which is preferable). - any other value will result in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization) Default: empty @@ -87,14 +87,14 @@ Default: empty *DAEMON_LOCALE=* - - If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon startup and during the boot process. + - If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon start-up and during the boot process. - If set to 'no', the C locale is used. Default: "yes" *USECOLOR=* -Use ANSI color sequences in startup messages +Use ANSI color sequences in start-up messages Default: "yes" @@ -102,26 +102,26 @@ HARDWARE[[H]] ------------- *MODULES=* -Modules to load at boot-up. To blacklist modules, see "man modprobe.d". See also -"man modules-load.d". +Modules to load at boot-up. To blacklist modules, see 'man 5 modprobe.d'. See also +'man 5 modules-load.d'. Default: (). *USEDMRAID=* -Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup. +Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) volumes at start-up. Default: "no" *USEBTRFS=* -Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup. +Scan for Btrfs volumes at start-up. Default: "no" *USELVM=* -Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM. +Scan for LVM volume groups at start-up. This is required if you use LVM. Default: "no" @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ The following settings help you setting up a wired network. *interface=* -Name of device. Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces. +Name of device. Use `ip addr` or `ls /sys/class/net/` to see all available interfaces. Default: empty @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Required for manual configuration, ignored for DHCP. netmask= gateway= -The following options might be needed for advanced use-cases. +The following options might be needed for advanced use cases. *NETWORK_PERSIST=* @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Default: "no" *NETWORKS=* -This functionality is deprecated, please refer to the 'netcfg' documentation. +This functionality is deprecated; please refer to 'man 8 netcfg'. DAEMONS[[D]] ------------ @@ -213,10 +213,10 @@ Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order) - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background If you are sure nothing else touches your hardware clock (such as ntpd or -a dual-boot), you might want to enable 'hwclock'. Note that this will only +by dual-booting), you might want to enable 'hwclock'. Note that this will only make a difference if the hwclock program has been calibrated correctly. -If you use a network filesystem you should enable 'netfs'. +If you use a network filesystem, you should enable 'netfs'. Default: (syslog-ng network crond) @@ -227,4 +227,4 @@ hostname(5), vconsole.conf(5), locale.conf(5), hwclock(8) AUTHORS ------- -Written by Dieter Plaetinck, Tom Gundersen and others. +Written by Dieter Plaetinck, Tom Gundersen, and others. |